Job 39:13-30

Modern English Version

¹³ “Did you give the beautiful wings to the peacocks?
    Or wings and feathers to the ostrich,
¹⁴ who leaves her eggs in the earth,
    and warms them in dust,
¹⁵ and forgets that a foot may crush them,
    or that the wild beast may break them?
¹⁶ She is hardened against her young ones,
    as though they were not hers;
    her labor is in vain, without concern,
¹⁷ because God has deprived her of wisdom,
    nor has He imparted understanding to her.
¹⁸ When she lifts up herself on high,
    she scorns the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ “Have you given the horse strength?
    Have you clothed his neck with thunder?
²⁰ Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper?
    The glory of his nostrils is awesome.
²¹ He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength;
    he goes on to meet the armed men.
²² He mocks at fear and is not frightened,
    nor does he turn back from the sword.
²³ The quiver rattles against him,
    the glittering spear and the shield.
²⁴ He devours the distance with fierceness and rage,
    and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
²⁵ At the sound of the trumpet he says, ‘Aha’;
    he smells the battle afar off,
    the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

²⁶ “Does the hawk fly by your wisdom,
    and stretch her wings toward the south?
²⁷ Does the eagle mount up at your command
    and make her nest on high?
²⁸ She dwells and remains on the rock,
    upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
²⁹ From there she seeks the prey,
    and her eyes see it from afar.
³⁰ Her young ones also suck up blood,
    and where the slain are, there she is.”