12. Can you rely on him to bring in your grainand gather in the yield of your threshing floor?
13. The wings of the ostrich flap away;her plumage is lacking in feathers.
14. When she abandons her eggs on the groundand lets them warm in the sand,
15. She forgets that a foot may crush them,that the wild beasts may trample them;
16. She cruelly disowns her youngand her labor is useless; she has no fear.
17. For God has withheld wisdom from herand given her no share in understanding.
18. Yet when she spreads her wings high,she laughs at a horse and rider.
19. Do you give the horse his strength,and clothe his neck with a mane?
20. Do you make him quiver like a locust,while his thunderous snorting spreads terror?