¹⁰ He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

¹⁴ And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

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

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

⁵ Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

³ The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

¹⁰ I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.

¹¹ And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

¹³ Let the war-carriage be yoked to the quick-running horse, you who are living in Lachish: she was the first cause of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the wrongdoings of Israel were seen in you.