你知道山岩间的野山羊几时生产么？你能察定母鹿几时下犊么？
Do you know the time when the mountain goats bring forth? / Can you mark the time when the hinds calve?

你能数算它们怀胎须满足的月数么？你知道它们几时生产么？
Can you number the months that they must fulfill? / Or do you know the time when they bring forth?

它们屈身，将子生下，就把疼痛中所生的遣走。
They crouch down; they give birth to their young ones; / They send forth their offspring.

它们的崽子渐渐肥壮，在荒野长大，一出去就不返回。
Their young become strong; they grow up in the open field; / They go forth and do not return to them.

谁放野驴出去自由？谁解开快驴的绳索？
Who has sent out the wild ass free? / Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

我使旷野作它的住家，使咸地当它的居所。
Whose home I have made the wilderness, / And the salt land, his dwelling place?

它嗤笑城内的喧嚷，不听赶牲口者的呼喝。
He scorns the tumult of the city; / He does not hear the shouts of the driver.

它探觅群山作草场，寻找各样青绿之物。
He searches out the mountains for his pasture / And seeks after every green thing.

野牛岂肯服事你，岂肯在你的槽旁过夜？
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you / Or spend the night by your manger?

你岂能用套绳将野牛系在犁沟之间？它岂肯随你耙山谷之地？
Can you bind the wild ox to the furrows with his ropes? / Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

岂可因它的力大，就倚靠它？岂可把你劳碌的工交给它作？
Will you trust in him because his strength is great? / Or will you leave your labor to him?

岂可信靠它把你的谷种运回家，又把谷收聚到你的禾场？
Will you have confidence in him that he will bring in your seed / And gather your grain to your threshing floor?

鸵鸟的翅膀欢然扇展，岂是显慈爱的翎毛和羽毛么？
The wings of the ostrich flap joyously: / Are they the pinion and plumage of lovingkindness?

因它把蛋留在地上，使其在尘土中得温暖；
For she leaves her eggs on the earth / And warms them in the dust.

却忘了脚会把蛋踹碎，田野的兽会把蛋践踏。
And she forgets that a foot may crush them / Or that an animal of the field may trample them.

它忍心待雏，似乎不是自己的；虽然徒受劳苦，也不惧怕；
She is hard with her children, as if they were not hers; / Though her labor may be in vain, she has no fear;

因为神使它没有智慧，也未将聪明分授与它。
Because God has caused her to forget wisdom / And has not appointed understanding to her.

它几时挺身腾跃，就嗤笑马和骑马的人。
At that time when she lifts herself up on high, / She scorns the horse and its rider.

马的大力是你所赐的么？它颈项上挓挱的鬃，是你给它披上的么？
Have you given the horse his might? / Have you clothed his neck with the quivering mane?

是你叫它跳跃像蝗虫么？它喷气之威使人惊惶。
Have you made him to leap like a locust? / His majestic snorting is terrible.

它在谷中刨地，以自己的力气为乐；它出去迎接佩带兵器的人。
He paws in the valley, / And he rejoices in his strength; / He goes forth to meet weapons.

它嗤笑可怕的事，并不惊惶，也不因刀剑退回。
He laughs at fear and is not dismayed, / And he does not turn back from the sword.

箭袋和发亮的枪，并短枪，在它身上铮铮有声。
A quiver of arrows rattles against him, / The flashing spear and the javelin.

它发猛烈的怒气将地吞下；一听角声就不耐站住。
With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground, / And he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

角每发声，它就说，啊哈！它从远处闻着战气，又听见军长大发雷声，和兵丁呐喊。
As often as the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! / And from afar he smells the battle, / The thundering of captains and the shouting.

鹰能飞翔，展翅南飞，岂是借你的聪明么？
Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, / Stretching his wings to the south?

大鹰上腾，在高处搭窝，岂是听你的吩咐么？
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up / And makes his nest on high?

它住在山岩，宿于山峰和坚固之处；
On the cliff he dwells and makes his lodging, / Upon the point of the cliff and the stronghold.

从那里窥看食物，眼睛远远观望。
From there he spies out food; / His eyes gaze on it from afar.

它的雏也咂血；被杀的人在哪里，它也在哪里。
And his young ones suck up the blood; / And where the slain are, there he is.