13. “An ostrich gets excited and flaps its wings, but it cannot fly. Its wings and feathers are not like the wings of a stork.
14. An ostrich lays her eggs on the ground and lets the sand keep them warm.
15. The ostrich forgets that someone might step on her eggs or that a wild animal might break them.
16. An ostrich leaves her little babies. She treats them as if they were not her own. If her babies die, she does not care that all her work was for nothing.
17. That’s because I did not give wisdom to the ostrich. She is foolish, and I made her that way.
18. But when the ostrich gets up to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider, because she can run faster than any horse.
19. “Did you give the horse its strength? Did you put the mane on its neck?
20. Did you make it able to jump like a locust or snort so loudly that it scares people?
21. A horse is happy to be so strong. It scratches the ground with its foot and runs into battle.
22. It laughs at fear; nothing makes it afraid! It does not run away from battle.
23. The soldier’s quiver shakes on the horse’s side. The spear and weapons its rider carries shine in the sun.
24. The horse gets very excited and races over the ground. When it hears the trumpet blow, it cannot stand still.
25. When the trumpet sounds, it snorts, ‘Hurray!’ It can smell the battle from far away and hear the shouts of commanders with all the other sounds of battle.