1 “Do you know the time when the wild ^amountain goats bear young?
Or can you mark when ^bthe deer gives birth? ‡

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

3 They bow down,
They bring forth their young,
They deliver their¹ offspring. ‡

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

5 “Who set the wild donkey free?
Who loosed the bonds of the¹ onager, ‡

6 ^aWhose home I have made the wilderness,
And the¹ barren land his dwelling? ‡

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

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture,
And he searches after ^aevery green thing. ‡

9 “Will the ^awild ox be willing to serve you?
Will he bed by your manger? ‡

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

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

12 Will you trust him to bring home your¹ grain,
And gather it to your threshing floor? ‡