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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.
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The [rider's] quiver rattles over it, [his] gleaming spear and javelin.
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Frenzied and eager, it devours the ground, scarcely believing the shofar has sounded.
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At the sound of the shofar it whinnies; as from afar it scents the battle, the roar of the chiefs and the shouting.
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"Is it your wisdom that sets the hawk soaring, spreading its wings toward the south?