Job 39:1-8

English Standard Version

39 “Do you know when ^(A)the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you observe ^(B)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 ^(C)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 ^(D)do not return to them.

⁵ “Who has let the wild donkey go free?
    Who has ^(E)loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
⁶ to whom I have given ^(F)the arid plain for his home
    and ^(G)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.