Job 39:1-10 ▼

1 Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

2 Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

3 They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

4 Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

5 Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

6 to whom I appointed the steppe for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

7 It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver.

8 It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

9 Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

10 Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?