Job 39:5-12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵ “Who has let the wild ass go free?
    Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,^(A)
6 to which I have given the steppe for its home,
    the salt land for its dwelling place?^(B)
7 It scorns the tumult of the city;
    it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
⁸ It ranges the mountains as its pasture,
    and it searches after every green thing.

⁹ “Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
    Will it spend the night at your crib?^(C)
10 Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,
    or will it harrow the valleys after you?
¹¹ Will you depend on it because its strength is great,
    and will you hand over your labor to it?
¹² Do you have faith in it that it will return
    and bring your grain to your threshing floor?^[a]