³ The ox ^(A)knows its owner,
    and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does ^(B)not know,
    my people do not understand.”

⁷ Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and ^(A)the turtledove, ^(B)swallow, and crane^[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
^(C)but my people know not
    the rules^[b] of the Lord.

²⁹ Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
    and do you not accept their testimony
³⁰ that ^(A)the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
    that he is rescued in the day of wrath?