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11 Can you depend upon its massive strength
    to do your heavy work?
12 Can you rely upon it to return home
    and bring your grain to your threshing floor?

The Ostrich and the Horse[a]

13 “The wings of an ostrich are ineffectual,
    since its pinions and its plumage are scanty.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:13 The ostrich seems to be bizarre, lacking foresight, and hard on its little ones (Lam 4:3), but it has incomparable speed. Inexplicable is the bravery of the war horse, described here by a connoisseur and an artist.