5. Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom?Who turned them loose and let them roam?
6. I gave them the desert to be their home,and let them live on the salt plains.
7. They keep far away from the noisy cities,and no one can tame them and make them work.
8. The mountains are the pastures where they feed,where they search for anything green to eat.
9. Will a wild ox work for you?Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?
10. Can you hold one with a rope and make him plough?Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?
11. Can you rely on his great strengthand expect him to do your heavy work?
12. Do you expect him to bring in your harvestand gather the grain from your threshing place?
13. How fast the wings of an ostrich beat!But no ostrich can fly like a stork.
14. The ostrich leaves her eggs on the groundfor the heat in the soil to warm them.
15. She is unaware that a foot may crush themor a wild animal break them.
16. She acts as if the eggs were not hers,and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.