39 ‘Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you observe the calving of the deer?
² Can you number the months that they fulfil,
    and do you know the time when they give birth,
³ when they crouch to give birth to their offspring,
    and are delivered of their young?
⁴ Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open;
    they go forth, and do not return to them.

⁵ ‘Who has let the wild ass go free?
    Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
⁶ to which I have given the steppe for its home,
    the salt land for its dwelling-place?
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.

²⁶ ‘Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
    and spreads its wings towards the south?
²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
    and makes its nest on high?
²⁸ It lives on the rock and makes its home
    in the fastness of the rocky crag.
²⁹ From there it spies the prey;
    its eyes see it from far away.
³⁰ Its young ones suck up blood;
    and where the slain are, there it is.’