⁵ Who set wild donkeys free?
⁶ I alone help them survive
    in salty desert sand.
⁷ They stay far from crowded cities
    and refuse to be tamed.
⁸ Instead, they roam the hills,
    searching for pastureland.

⁹ Would a wild ox agree
to live in your barn
    and labor for you?
¹⁰ Could you force him to plow
or to drag a heavy log
    to smooth out the soil?
¹¹ Can you depend on him
to use his great strength
    and do your heavy work?
¹² Can you trust him
    to harvest your grain
or take it to your barn
    from the threshing place?

²¹ Before horses are ridden
    into battle,
they paw at the ground,
    proud of their strength.
²² Laughing at fear, they rush
    toward the fighting,
²³ while the weapons of their riders
    rattle and flash in the sun.
²⁴ Unable to stand still,
they gallop eagerly into battle
    when trumpets blast.
²⁵ Stirred by the distant smells
and sounds of war, they snort
    in reply to the trumpet.

²⁶ Did you teach hawks to fly south
    for the winter?
* ²⁷ Did you train eagles^[c] to build
²⁸     their nests on rocky cliffs,
²⁹ where they can look down
    to spot their next meal?
^30 (A) Then their young gather to feast
    wherever the victim lies.