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Job 39:10-20 Good News Bible (GNB)

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.

17. It was I who made her foolishand did not give her wisdom.

18. But when she begins to run,she can laugh at any horse and rider.

19. Was it you, Job, who made horses so strongand gave them their flowing manes?

20. Did you make them leap like locustsand frighten people with their snorting?