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Will you depend on it because its strength is great, and will you hand over your labor to it?
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Do you have faith in it that it will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
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"The ostrich's wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.
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For it leaves its eggs to the earth, and lets them be warmed on the ground,
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forgetting that a foot may crush them, and that a wild animal may trample them.
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It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;
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because God has made it forget wisdom, and given it no share in understanding.
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When it spreads its plumes aloft, it laughs at the horse and its rider.
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"Do you give the horse its might? Do you clothe its neck with mane?
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Do you make it leap like the locust? Its majestic snorting is terrible.
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It paws violently, exults mightily; it goes out to meet the weapons.