New International Reader's Version

Job 39:10-20 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

10. Can you keep them in straight rows with harnesses? Will they plow the valleys behind you?

11. Will you depend on them for their great strength? Will you let them do your heavy work?

12. Can you trust them to bring in your grain? Will they take it to your threshing floor?

13. "The wings of ostriches flap with joy. But they can't compare with the wings and feathers of storks.

14. Ostriches lay their eggs on the ground. They let them get warm in the sand.

15. They do not know that something might step on them. A wild animal might walk all over them.

16. Ostriches are mean to their little ones. They treat them as if they did not belong to them. They do not care that their work was useless.

17. I did not provide ostriches with wisdom. I did not give them good sense.

18. But when they spread their feathers to run, they laugh at a horse and its rider.

19. "Job, do you give horses their strength? Do you put flowing manes on their necks?

20. Do you make them jump like locusts? They terrify others with their proud snorting.