⁷ "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; The birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

²⁹ Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

³⁰ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

³ The ox knows his owner, And the donkey his master's crib; But Israel doesn't know, My people don't consider.

⁷ Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know Yahweh's law.