Job 39:11
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Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
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Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.
“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.