Job 39:10-20

10 Can you imagine hitching your plow to a buffalo and getting him to till your fields?
11 He's hugely strong, yes, but could you trust him, would you dare turn the job over to him?
12 You wouldn't for a minute depend on him, would you, to do what you said when you said it?
13 "The ostrich flaps her wings futilely - all those beautiful feathers, but useless!
14 She lays her eggs on the hard ground, leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather,
15 Not caring that they might get stepped on and cracked or trampled by some wild animal.
16 She's negligent with her young, as if they weren't even hers. She cares nothing about anything.
17 She wasn't created very smart, that's for sure, wasn't given her share of good sense.
18 But when she runs, oh, how she runs, laughing, leaving horse and rider in the dust.
19 "Are you the one who gave the horse his prowess and adorned him with a shimmering mane?
20 Did you create him to prance proudly and strike terror with his royal snorts?
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