1  “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?

Do you observe the calving of the does?

2  Can you number the months that they fulfill,

and do you know the time when they give birth,

3  when they crouch, bring forth their offspring,

and are delivered of their young?

4  Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;

they go out and do not return to them.

5  “Who has let the ^pwild donkey go free?

Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

6  to whom I have given the arid plain for his home

and the salt land for his dwelling place?

7  He scorns the tumult of the city;

he hears not the shouts of the driver.

8  He ranges the mountains as his pasture,

and he searches after every green thing.

9  “Is the wild ox willing to serve you?

Will he spend the night at your manger?

10  Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes,

or will he harrow the valleys after you?