Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

and throw your gold in the dust – your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines –