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because God has deprived it of wisdom and did not give it any understanding.
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It laughs at the horse and its rider when it gets up to flee.
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"Can you give strength to a horse or dress its neck with a flowing mane?
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Can you make it leap like a locust, when its snorting causes terror?
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It paws in strength and finds joy in its power. It charges into battle.
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It laughs at fear, is afraid of nothing, and doesn't back away from swords.
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A quiver of arrows rattles on it along with the flashing spear and javelin.
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Anxious and excited, the horse eats up the ground and doesn't trust the sound of the ram's horn.
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As often as the horn sounds, the horse says, 'Aha!' and it smells the battle far away-- the thundering [orders] of the captains and the battle cries.
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"Does your understanding make a bird of prey fly and spread its wings toward the south?
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Is it by your order that the eagle flies high and makes its nest on the heights?