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

⁵ Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

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

⁵ Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

²¹ And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.

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.

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.

¹⁴ For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;

¹⁴ Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:

¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.