Yahweh’s Challenge Continues

• Do you observe the doe deer’s giving birth?
• 2 the months they fulfill, and do you know the time of its giving birth?
• 3  they get rid of their labor pains.[fn]
• 4  they go forth and do not return to them.
• 5 the wild ass free? And who has released the wild donkey’s bonds,
• 6 to which I have given the wilderness as its house and the salt flat as its dwelling place?
• 7 the city’s turmoil; it does not hear the driver’s shouts.
• 8 the mountains as its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.
• 9 the wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?
• 10 the wild ox with its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow the valleys after you?
• 11 is great, or will you hand your labor over to it?
• 12  and that it will gather it to your threshing floor?
• 13 The wings[fn] of the female ostrich flap[fn]— are they[fn] the pinions of the stork or[fn] the falcon?
• 14  and it lets them be warmed on the ground,
• 15 [fn] and[fn] might trample it.[fn]
• 16 if they were not its own, as if without fear that its labor were in vain,
• 17  and he did not give it a share in understanding.
• 18 [fn] it laughs at the horse and its rider.
• 19  Do you clothe its neck with a mane?
• 20  The majesty of its snorting is terrifying.
• 21  it goes out to meet the battle.
• 22  and it does not turn back from[fn] the sword.
• 23 the quiver rattles along with the flash of the spear and the short sword.
• 24 [fn] and it cannot stand still at the sound of the horn.
• 25 [fn] a horn sounds, it says, ‘Aha!’ And it smells the battle from a distance—
• the thunder of the commanders and the war cry.
• 26 the hawk soar by your wisdom? Does it spread its wings to the south?
• 27 the eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high?
• 28 on the rock and spends the night[fn]
• 29 the prey; its eyes look from far away.
• 30  and where the dead carcasses are, there they are.”