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

¹⁹“Do you give the horse its might? Do you clothe its neck with mane? ²⁰Do you make it leap like the locust? Its majestic snorting is terrible. ²¹It paws violently, exults mightily; it goes out to meet the weapons. ²²It laughs at fear, and is not dismayed; it does not turn back from the sword. ²³Upon it rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin. ²⁴With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground; it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet. ²⁵When the trumpet sounds, it says ‘Aha!’ From a distance it smells the battle, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.