till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare; and does not realize that it is for his soul.

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not discerned.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah.