Job 39:12-14

The Voice

¹² Can you depend on it to return the remaining seed to you,
to carry the grain to your threshing floor?

God now speaks to Job of the ostrich. Is Job as foolish as this stupid bird who leaves her eggs on the ground?

¹³    The ostrich flaps her wings,
        and the ringing joy is heard.
        But her wings and pinions are not like a stork’s. She cannot fly.
¹⁴    She is different from other birds,
        for she lays her eggs straight on the ground,
        and she incubates them in the bare dust.