¹⁰ Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

¹⁴ that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

⁵ "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

⁷ He scorns the tumult of the city, Neither hears he the shouting of the driver.

⁵ Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

³ The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

¹⁰ When it is my desire, I will chastise them; And the nations will be gathered against them, When they are bound to their two transgressions.

¹¹ Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; So I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

¹³ Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.