6. I am the one who gave the donkey the desert as its home;I gave it the desert lands as a place to live.
7. The wild donkey laughs at the confusion in the city,and it does not hear the drivers shout.
8. It roams the hills looking for pasture,looking for anything green to eat.
9. “Will the wild ox agree to serve youand stay by your feeding box at night?
10. Can you hold it to the plowed row with a harnessso it will plow the valleys for you?
11. Will you depend on the wild ox for its great strengthand leave your heavy work for it to do?
12. Can you trust the ox to bring in your grainand gather it to your threshing floor?
13. “The wings of the ostrich flap happily,but they are not like the feathers of the stork.
14. The ostrich lays its eggs on the groundand lets them warm in the sand.
15. It does not stop to think that a foot might step on them and crush them;it does not care that some animal might walk on them.
16. The ostrich is cruel to its young, as if they were not even its own.It does not care that its work is for nothing,
17. because God did not give the ostrich wisdom;God did not give it a share of good sense.
18. But when the ostrich gets up to run, it is so fastthat it laughs at the horse and its rider.