¹³ ‘The ostrich’s wings flap wildly,
    though its pinions lack plumage.^[a]
14 For it leaves its eggs to the earth,
    and lets them be warmed on the ground,
¹⁵ forgetting that a foot may crush them,
    and that a wild animal may trample them.
¹⁶ It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own;
    though its labour should be in vain, yet it has no fear;
¹⁷ because God has made it forget wisdom,
    and given it no share in understanding.
¹⁸ When it spreads its plumes aloft,^[b]
    it laughs at the horse and its rider.

²⁶ ‘Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
    and spreads its wings towards the south?
²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
    and makes its nest on high?
²⁸ It lives on the rock and makes its home
    in the fastness of the rocky crag.
²⁹ From there it spies the prey;
    its eyes see it from far away.
³⁰ Its young ones suck up blood;
    and where the slain are, there it is.’