⁹ Can you tell a wild ox to work for you?
    No! At night, it will not stay to feed at your farm.
¹⁰ It will not let you tie it to a plough.
    It will not agree to prepare your fields in the valleys.
¹¹ A wild ox is very strong.
    But you cannot trust it to help you with your difficult work.
¹² It will not help you to bring in your harvest of grain.
    It will not take the grain to your threshing floor.

¹³ When an ostrich is happy,
    it waves its wings.
But it cannot use its wings to fly,
    as a stork can do.
¹⁴ A mother ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground.
    She lets the sand cause them to be warm.
¹⁵ She does not realize that people or wild animals
    might break the eggs with their feet.
¹⁶ She does not take care of her babies,
    as if they did not belong to her.
She does not worry that all her work might be useless.
¹⁷ This is because I did not give wisdom to ostriches.
    I did not give them minds that understand things.
¹⁸ But when an ostrich begins to run,
    it can run very fast.
It can run faster than a horse
    and someone who rides on it.

¹⁹ Did you, Job, give horses their strength?
    Did you give them the long hair that they have on their necks?
²⁰ You did not make horses able to jump like locusts.
    They frighten people when they blow air out through their noses.
²¹ They stamp their feet on the ground,
    as they prepare to go to a battle.
    They are ready to go and attack the enemy.
²² A horse is brave and it is not afraid of anything.
    It does not run away from the enemy's weapons.
²³ The soldier who is riding it
    has his arrows ready at the horse's side.
Swords and spears shine brightly in the sun.
²⁴ The horse shakes with joy
    as it runs to the battle.
When the battle trumpet makes its noise,
    the horse wants to run even faster!^[b]
25 When it hears the sound of the trumpet,
    it makes a happy noise.
From far away, it recognizes the smell of the battle.
    It hears the army officers as they shout their commands.

²⁶ Was it your wisdom, Job, that taught hawks how to fly?
    No! You could not teach them to fly towards the south in winter.
²⁷ Do eagles wait for your command
    to fly high into the sky?
No! You could not teach them how to build their nests
    high up in the mountains.
²⁸ They live among the highest rocks.
    That is where they stay at night.
They are safe on the sharp rocks.
²⁹ From the high rocks,
    eagles look for their food.
They see small animals far away,
    that they can catch and eat.
³⁰ They come together around the bodies of dead animals.
    The young eagles drink the blood.’