Job 39:13-30

Revised Standard Version

¹³ “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly;
    but are they the pinions and plumage of love?^[a]
14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth,
    and lets them be warmed on the ground,
¹⁵ forgetting that a foot may crush them,
    and that the wild beast may trample them.
¹⁶ She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
    though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear;
¹⁷ because God has made her forget wisdom,
    and given her no share in understanding.
¹⁸ When she rouses herself to flee,^[b]
    she laughs at the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ “Do you give the horse his might?
    Do you clothe his neck with strength?^[c]
20 Do you make him leap like the locust?
    His majestic snorting is terrible.
²¹ He paws^[d] in the valley, and exults in his strength;
    he goes out to meet the weapons.
²² He laughs at fear, and is not dismayed;
    he does not turn back from the sword.
²³ Upon him rattle the quiver,
    the flashing spear and the javelin.
²⁴ With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
    he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
²⁵ When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’
    He smells the battle from afar,
    the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

²⁶ “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
    and spreads his wings toward the south?
²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
    and makes his nest on high?
²⁸ On the rock he dwells and makes his home
    in the fastness of the rocky crag.
²⁹ Thence he spies out the prey;
    his eyes behold it afar off.
³⁰ His young ones suck up blood;
    and where the slain are, there is he.”