²⁴ An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

⁶ And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

¹² And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

⁵ Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

⁶ They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

⁷ Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

⁸ Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

²⁷ Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

¹⁵ I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.