Read the Bible

¹ When do mountain goats
    and deer give birth?
Have you been there
    when their young are born?
² How long are they pregnant
³     before they deliver?
⁴ Soon their young grow strong
and then leave
    to be on their own.

⁵ Who set wild donkeys free?
⁶ I alone help them survive
    in salty desert sand.
⁷ They stay far from crowded cities
    and refuse to be tamed.
⁸ Instead, they roam the hills,
    searching for pastureland.

⁹ Would a wild ox agree
to live in your barn
    and labor for you?
¹⁰ Could you force him to plow
or to drag a heavy log
    to smooth out the soil?
¹¹ Can you depend on him
to use his great strength
    and do your heavy work?
¹² Can you trust him
    to harvest your grain
or take it to your barn
    from the threshing place?

¹³ An ostrich proudly
    flaps her wings,
but not because
    she loves her young.
¹⁴ She abandons her eggs
and lets the dusty ground
    keep them warm.
¹⁵ And she doesn't seem to worry
that the feet of an animal
    could crush them all.
¹⁶ She treats her eggs as though
    they were not her own,
unconcerned that her work
    might be for nothing.
¹⁷ I myself made her foolish
    and without common sense.
¹⁸ But once she starts running,^[a]
she laughs at a rider
    on the fastest horse.

¹⁹ Did you give horses their strength
and the flowing hair
    along their necks?
²⁰ Did you make them able
    to jump like grasshoppers
or to frighten people
    with their snorting?

²¹ Before horses are ridden
    into battle,
they paw at the ground,
    proud of their strength.
²² Laughing at fear, they rush
    toward the fighting,
²³ while the weapons of their riders
    rattle and flash in the sun.
²⁴ Unable to stand still,
they gallop eagerly into battle
    when trumpets blast.
²⁵ Stirred by the distant smells
and sounds of war,
they snort
    in reply to the trumpet.

²⁶ Did you teach hawks to fly south
    for the winter?
²⁷ Did you train eagles^[b] to build
²⁸     their nests on rocky cliffs,
²⁹ where they can look down
    to spot their next meal?
³⁰ Then their young gather to feast
    wherever the victim lies.