39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you watch when the deer gives birth to her fawn?
² Do you count the months until they give birth?
    Do you know when the time is right for them to give birth?
³ They lie down, and their young are born.
    Then the pain of giving birth is over.
⁴ Their young ones grow and become strong in the wild country.
    Then they leave their homes and do not come back.

⁵ “Who let the wild donkey go free?
    Who untied his ropes?
⁶ I am the one who gave the donkey the desert as his home.
    I gave him the desert lands as a place to live.
⁷ The wild donkey laughs at the confusion in the city.
    He does not hear the drivers shout.
⁸ He roams the hills looking for pasture.
    And he looks for anything green to eat.

⁹ “Will the wild ox agree to serve you?
    Will he stay by your feeding box at night?
¹⁰ Can you hold him to the plowed row with a harness?
    Will he plow the valleys for you?
¹¹ Will you depend on the wild ox for his great strength?
    Will you leave your heavy work for him to do?
¹² Can you trust the ox to bring in your grain?
    Will he gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³ “The wings of the ostrich flap happily.
    But the ostrich’s wings are not as beautiful as the feathers of the stork.
¹⁴ The ostrich lays her eggs on the ground
    and lets them warm in the sand.
¹⁵ She does not stop to think that a foot might step on them and crush them.
    She does not care that some animal might walk on them.
¹⁶ The ostrich is cruel to her young, as if they were not even hers.
    She does not care that her work is for nothing.
¹⁷ This is because God did not give the ostrich wisdom.
    God did not give her a share of good sense.
¹⁸ But when the ostrich gets up to run, she is so fast
    that she laughs at the horse and its rider.

¹⁹ “Job, are you the one who gives the horse his strength?
    Or do you put a flowing mane on his neck?
²⁰ Do you make the horse jump like a locust?
    He scares people with his proud snorting.
²¹ He paws wildly, enjoying his strength.
    And he charges into the battle.
²² He laughs at fear and is afraid of nothing.
    He will not run away from the sword.
²³ The bag of arrows rattles against the horse’s side.
    It is there with the flashing spears.
²⁴ With great excitement, the horse races over the ground.
    He cannot stand still when he hears the trumpet.
²⁵ When the trumpet blows, the horse snorts, ‘Aha!’
    He smells the battle from far away.
    He hears the thunder of commanders and the shouts of battle.

²⁶ “Is it through your wisdom that the hawk flies?
    Is this why he spreads his wings toward the south?
²⁷ Are you the one that commands the eagle to fly
    and build his nest so high?
²⁸ The eagle lives on a high cliff and stays there at night.
    The rocky peak is his protected place.
²⁹ From there he looks for his food.
    His eyes can see it from far away.
³⁰ His young eat blood.
    And where there is something dead, the eagle is there.”