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or rely on it to bring home your seed and gather the grain from your threshing-floor?
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"An ostrich's wings beat wildly, although its pinions lack plumage.
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It leaves its eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed by the sand,
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forgetting that a foot may crush them or a wild animal trample on them.
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It treats its chicks heartlessly, as if they were not its own; even if her labor is in vain, it really doesn't care;
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because God has deprived it of wisdom and given it no share in understanding.
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When the time comes, it flaps its wings, scorning both horse and rider.
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"Did you give the horse its strength? Did you clothe its neck with a mane?
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Did you make him able to leap like a locust? Its majestic snorting is frightening!
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It paws with force and exults with vigor, then charges into the battle;
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mocking at fear, unafraid, it does not shy away from the sword.