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
    and know the right time for them to give birth?
³ They lie down, their young are born,
    and then the pain of giving birth is over.
⁴ Their young ones grow big and strong in the wild country.
    Then they leave their homes and do not return.

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

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

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

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

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