17. For God has deprived her of wisdom.He has given her no understanding.
18. But whenever she jumps up to run,she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.
19. “Have you given the horse its strengthor clothed its neck with a flowing mane?
20. Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust?Its majestic snorting is terrifying!
21. It paws the earth and rejoices in its strengthwhen it charges out to battle.
22. It laughs at fear and is unafraid.It does not run from the sword.
23. The arrows rattle against it,and the spear and javelin flash.
24. It paws the ground fiercelyand rushes forward into battle when the ram’s horn blows.
25. It snorts at the sound of the horn.It senses the battle in the distance.It quivers at the captain’s commands and the noise of battle.
26. “Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soarand spread its wings toward the south?
27. Is it at your command that the eagle risesto the heights to make its nest?
28. It lives on the cliffs,making its home on a distant, rocky crag.
29. From there it hunts its prey,keeping watch with piercing eyes.
30. Its young gulp down blood.Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”