Job 39:13-30

Lexham English Bible

¹³ “The wings^[a] of the female ostrich flap^[b]—
are they^[c] the pinions of the stork or^[d] the falcon?
¹⁴ Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth,
and it lets them be warmed on the ground,
¹⁵ and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg,^[e]
and a wild animal^[f] might trample it.^[g]
16 It deals cruelly with its young ones, as if they were not its own,
as if without fear that its labor were in vain,
¹⁷ because God made it forget wisdom,
and he did not give it a share in understanding.
¹⁸ When it spreads its wings aloft,^[h]
it laughs at the horse and its rider.
¹⁹ “Do you give power to the horse?
Do you clothe its neck with a mane?
²⁰ Do you make it leap like the locust?
The majesty of its snorting is terrifying.
²¹ They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength;
it goes out to meet the battle.
²² It laughs at danger and is not dismayed,
and it does not turn back from before^[i] the sword.
²³ Upon it the quiver rattles
along with the flash of the spear and the short sword.
²⁴ With roar and rage it races over the ground,^[j]
and it cannot stand still at the sound of the horn.
²⁵ Whenever^[k] a horn sounds, it says, ‘Aha!’
And it smells the battle from a distance—
the thunder of the commanders and the war cry.
²⁶ “Does the hawk soar by your wisdom?
Does it spread its wings to the south?
²⁷ Or does the eagle fly high at your command
and construct its nest high?
²⁸ It lives on the rock and spends the night
on the rock point and the mountain stronghold.^[l]
29 From there it spies out the prey;
its eyes look from far away.
³⁰ And its young ones lick blood greedily,
and where the dead carcasses are, there they are.”