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.