Job 39:13-30

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹³ The wings of a screeching ostrich flap wildly,
but they do not have feathers and plumage like a stork’s.
¹⁴ She leaves her eggs on the ground.
She keeps them warm in the dust.
¹⁵ She forgets that a foot may crush them,
or a wild animal may trample them.
¹⁶ She is hard-hearted toward her children.
It is as if they were not hers.
It does not bother her if her labor is for nothing,
¹⁷ because God made her forget wisdom,
and he has not given her any understanding.
¹⁸ But as soon as she jumps up to run,
she laughs at the horse and the rider.

¹⁹ Did you give strength to the horse?
Did you clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
²⁰ Did you give it the ability to jump like a locust?
Its snorting and neighing are frightening.
²¹ It paws at the ground in the valley.^[a]
It rejoices in its strength.
It goes out to meet the weapons of war.
²² It laughs at danger and is not afraid.
It does not turn away from the sword.
²³ A quiver rattles against it.
A spear and a javelin^[b] flash.
²⁴ Shaking with excitement, it swallows up ground.
It doesn’t just stand there when the ram’s horn sounds.
²⁵ As often as the horn sounds, it neighs and snorts!
From a distance it smells the battle,
the thunder of the commanders and the war cries.

²⁶ Did you teach the hawk how to soar,
as it spreads out its wings to the south?
²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle flies high
and makes its nest in a lofty place?
²⁸ On a rocky cliff it settles down to spend the night,
on a pinnacle of rock in a mountain stronghold.
²⁹ From there it spies its food.
Its eyes spot it far away.
³⁰ Its young ones drink up the blood.
Wherever the carcasses are—there it is.