1 Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats  of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
         
                                
                        2 Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast  known the time of their bringing forth!
         
                                
                        3 They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely,  Their pangs they cast forth.
         
                                
                        4 Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they  have gone out, And have not returned to them.
         
                                
                        5 Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of  the wild ass who opened?
         
                                
                        6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings  the barren land,
         
                                
                        7 He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an  exactor he heareth not.