Yahweh continued his reply to Job

1“Job, do you know at what time/season of the year the female mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the wild deer while their fawns were being born?

2Do you know how many months pass from the time they become pregnant until their fawns are born?

3When they give birth, they crouch down so that the fawns do not get hurt by falling to the ground when they are born.

4The young fawns grow up in the open fields, and then they leave their mothers and do not return to them again.

5“Who allows the wild donkeys to go wherever they want [DOU]?

6I am the one who put them in the desert, in places where grass does not grow.

7They do not like the noise in the cities; in the desert they do not have to listen to the shouts of those who force donkeys to work.

8They go to the hills to find food; there they search for grass to eat.

9:Will a wild ox agree to work for you? Will it allow you to keep it penned up at night in the place where you put feed for your animals?

10And can you fasten it with a rope so that it will plow furrows/trenches in your fields?

11Since it is very strong, can you trust it to work for you? Can you go away after you tell it what work it should do and assume that it will do that work?

12Can you rely on it to come back from the field, bringing your grain to the place where you thresh it?

13“Think also about the ostriches. They joyfully flap their wings, but they do not have wing feathers that enable them to fly like storks do.

14Ostriches lay their eggs on top of the ground and then walk away, leaving the eggs to be warmed in the sand.

15Ostriches do not worry that some wild animal may step on the eggs and crush them [DOU].

16Ostriches act cruelly towards their chicks; they act as though the chicks belonged to some other ostrich. They are not concerned if their chicks die, and so the laying of the eggs was in vain.

17That is because I did not allow ostriches to be wise. I did not enable them to be intelligent.

18But, when they get up and begin to run, they scornfully laugh at horses with their riders
because the horses cannot run as fast as the ostriches!

19And think about horses. Job, are you the one who caused horses to be strong? Are you the one who put flowing ◄manes/long hair► on their necks?

20Are you the one who enabled them to leap forward like locusts? When they ◄snort/blow loudly through their noses►, they cause people to be afraid.

21They paw the ground, rejoicing about being very strong, as they prepare to rush into a battle.

22It is as if they laugh at the thought of being afraid. They are not afraid of anything! They do not run away when the soldiers in the battle are fighting each other with swords.

23The quivers containing the riders’ arrows rattle against the horses’ sides, and the spears and javelins flash in the light of the sun.

24The horses paw the ground fiercely/excitedly, wanting the battle to begin, and they rush into the battle when the trumpet is blown.

25They neigh joyfully when they hear someone blowing the trumpet. They can smell a battle even when they are far away,
and they understand what it means when the commanders shout their commands to their soldiers.

26“And think about big birds. Are you the one who enabled hawks to spread their wings and fly to the south for the winter?

27Do eagles fly high up into the cliffs to make their nests because you commanded them to do that?

28They live in holes in those cliffs. They are safe in those high pointed rocks because no animals can reach them there.

29As they watch carefully from there, they see far away the animals that they can kill (OR, dead bodies of animals).

30After an eagle kills an animal, the baby eagles drink the blood of that animal.”