8. They live in the mountains. That is their pasture. That is where they look for food to eat.
9. “Will a wild bull agree to serve you? Will he stay in your barn at night?
10. Will he let you put ropes on him to plow your fields?
11. A wild bull is very strong, but can you trust him to do your work?
12. Can you trust him to gather your grain and bring it to your threshing place?
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.