Job

¹ Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?

² Do you know the time they give birth?

³ their labor pains are ended.

⁴ they leave and do not return.

⁵ Who untied his ropes?

⁶ the salt flats as his habitat.

⁷ he does not hear a driver’s shout.

⁸ and searches for any green thing.

⁹ Will he stay by your manger at night?

¹⁰ Will he till the valleys behind you?

¹¹ Will you leave your heavy work to him?

¹² and gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³ but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork.

¹⁴ and lets them warm in the sand,

¹⁵ that some wild animal may trample them.

¹⁶ she cares not that her labor was in vain,

¹⁷ or give her a share of good sense.

¹⁸ she laughs at horse and rider.

¹⁹ or clothe his neck with a flowing mane?

²⁰ striking terror with his proud snorting?

²¹ and charges into the fray.

²² he does not shy away from the sword.

²³ along with the flashing spear and lance.

²⁴ he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds.

²⁵ He catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

²⁶ and spread his wings toward the south?

²⁷ and build his nest on high?

²⁸ a rocky crag is his stronghold.

²⁹ his eyes detect it from afar.

³⁰ and where the slain are, there is he.”