39:1  “Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young?
Or can you mark when the deer gives birth?

39:2  Can you number the months that they fulfill?
Or do you know the time when they bear young?

39:3  They bow down,
They bring forth their young,
They deliver their offspring.

39:4  Their young ones are healthy,
They grow strong with grain;
They depart and do not return to them.

39:5  “Who set the wild donkey free?
Who loosed the bonds of the onager,

39:6  Whose home I have made the wilderness,
And the barren land his dwelling?

39:7  He scorns the tumult of the city;
He does not heed the shouts of the driver.

39:8  The range of the mountains is his pasture,
And he searches after every green thing.

39:9  “Will the wild ox be willing to serve you?
Will he bed by your manger?

39:10  Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?
Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

39:11  Will you trust him because his strength is great?
Or will you leave your labor to him?

39:12  Will you trust him to bring home your grain,
And gather it to your threshing floor?

39:13  “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s?

39:14  For she leaves her eggs on the ground,
And warms them in the dust;

39:15  She forgets that a foot may crush them,
Or that a wild beast may break them.

39:16  She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers;
Her labor is in vain, without concern,

39:17  Because God deprived her of wisdom,
And did not endow her with understanding.

39:18  When she lifts herself on high,
She scorns the horse and its rider.

39:19  “Have you given the horse strength?
Have you clothed his neck with thunder?

39:20  Can you frighten him like a locust?
His majestic snorting strikes terror.

39:21  He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength;
He gallops into the clash of arms.

39:22  He mocks at fear, and is not frightened;
Nor does he turn back from the sword.

39:23  The quiver rattles against him,
The glittering spear and javelin.

39:24  He devours the distance with fierceness and rage;
Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.

39:25  At the blast of the trumpet he says, ‘Aha!’
He smells the battle from afar,
The thunder of captains and shouting.

39:26  “Does the hawk fly by your wisdom,
And spread its wings toward the south?

39:27  Does the eagle mount up at your command,
And make its nest on high?

39:28  On the rock it dwells and resides,
On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.

39:29  From there it spies out the prey;
Its eyes observe from afar.

39:30  Its young ones suck up blood;
And where the slain are, there it is.”