What is the context?
The ostrich portrait combines vigorous wings and swift running with eggs exposed on the ground and a lack of understanding. The animal is not presented as possessing every possible advantage.
Its apparent limitations do not exhaust what it is: when it runs, it laughs at horse and rider. The account places weakness and a striking capacity within the same creature.
The questions have already unsettled the assumption that all things exist for human management. This portrait also challenges the demand that every creature conform to a single measure of usefulness or wisdom.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley treats the contrast between apparent folly and remarkable speed as part of the variety of God’s works. The BSB’s ostrich and stork wording should remain visible alongside his older translation. The passage offers a poetic portrait rather than instructions for evaluating a modern parent’s character.
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