Job 39 in the early church

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.

Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.

Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”