Job

¹ Have you ever watched a doe bear her fawn?

² Do you know the season of her delivery,

³ when she crouches down and drops her offspring?

⁴ they leave and don't come back.

⁵ opened the corral gates and let him go?

⁶ the rolling plains and wide-open places.

⁷ He's oblivious to the cries of teamsters.

⁸ nibbling anything that's green.

⁹ volunteer to spend the night in your barn?

¹⁰ and getting him to till your fields?

¹¹ would you dare turn the job over to him?

¹² to do what you said when you said it?

¹³ all those beautiful feathers, but useless!

¹⁴ leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather,

¹⁵ or trampled by some wild animal.

¹⁶ She cares nothing about anything.

¹⁷ wasn't given her share of good sense.

¹⁸ laughing, leaving horse and rider in the dust.

¹⁹ and adorned him with a shimmering mane?

²⁰ and strike terror with his royal snorts?

²¹ then charges into the fray.

²² doesn't shy away from the sword.

²³ of quiver and lance don't faze him.

²⁴ races off at a gallop.

²⁵ smelling the excitement of battle from a long way off, catching the rolling thunder of the war cries.

²⁶ soaring effortlessly on thermal updrafts?

²⁷ and teach her to build her nest in the heights,

²⁸ invulnerable on pinnacle and crag?

²⁹ spies it at a great distance.

³⁰ wherever there's a roadkill, you'll see her circling."