Job 39:1-8 ▼

1 Do you know when mountain goats are born, or watch for the birth pangs of deer,

2 Number the months that they must fulfill, or know when they give birth,

3 When they crouch down and drop their young, when they deliver their progeny?

4 Their offspring thrive and grow in the open, they leave and do not return.

5 Who has given the wild donkey his freedom, and who has loosed the wild ass from bonds?

6 I have made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

7 He scoffs at the uproar of the city, hears no shouts of a driver.

8 He ranges the mountains for pasture, and seeks out every patch of green.