10. If you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes, would he plough the valleys behind you?
11. Would you rely on his great strength? Or would you leave your labour to him?
12. Would you trust him to bring home your grain, and gather it to your threshing-floor?
13. The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but they are not the pinions and plumage of kindness!
14. She leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust;
15. and she forgets that a foot might crush them, or a wild beast tread on them.
16. She treats her young harshly, as if not hers; her toil is in vain, without fear,
17. because Eloah has made her forget wisdom, and did not endow her with understanding.
18. When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
19. Have you given the horse strength? Have you covered his neck with a mane?
20. Would you make him leap like a locust? His splendid snorting is frightening.
21. He paws in the valley, and rejoices in strength. He gallops into the clash of arms.
22. He laughs at fear, and is not frightened; nor does he turn back from the sword.
23. The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and lance.
24. He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, and he does not stand still when the ram’s horn sounds.
25. At the blast of the ram’s horn he says, ‘Aha!’ And from afar he smells the battle, the thunder of commanders and shouting.