Job 39:11-13

The Voice

¹¹    Can you trust it simply because of its enormous strength?
        Can you really leave your work to it without guiding it?
¹²    Can you depend on it to return the remaining seed to you,
        to carry the grain to your threshing floor?

God now speaks to Job of the ostrich. Is Job as foolish as this stupid bird who leaves her eggs on the ground?

¹³    The ostrich flaps her wings,
        and the ringing joy is heard.
        But her wings and pinions are not like a stork’s. She cannot fly.

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