Job 39:13-18

Easy-to-Read Version

¹³ “An ostrich gets excited and flaps its wings, but it cannot fly.
    Its wings and feathers are not like the wings of a stork.
¹⁴ An ostrich lays her eggs on the ground
    and lets the sand keep them warm.
¹⁵ The ostrich forgets that someone might step on her eggs
    or that a wild animal might break them.
¹⁶ An ostrich leaves her little babies.
    She treats them as if they were not her own.
    If her babies die, she does not care that all her work was for nothing.
¹⁷ That’s because I did not give wisdom to the ostrich.
    She is foolish, and I made her that way.
¹⁸ But when the ostrich gets up to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider,
    because she can run faster than any horse.