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It scorns [the] city's turmoil; it does not hear [the] driver's shouts.
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It explores [the] mountains [as] its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.
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"Is [the] wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?
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Can you tie [the] wild ox [with] its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow [the] valleys after you?
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Can you trust it because its strength [is] great, or will you hand your labor over to it?
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Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and [that] it will gather [it] to your threshing floor?
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"[The] wings of [the] female ostrich flap-- [are they] [the] pinions of [the] stork or [the] falcon?
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Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth, and it lets [them] be warmed on [the] ground,
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and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg, and {a wild animal} might trample it.
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It deals cruelly with its young ones, as [if] [they were] not its [own], as [if] without fear [that] its labor [were] in vain,
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because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.