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- Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
- The wings...of love - Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that Job cannot explain why ostriches behave the way that they do. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion)
- ostrich - a very large bird that can run very fast but cannot fly
- wave proudly - "move with joy"
- pinions - the very long feathers on the wings of birds
- plumage - the smaller feathers that are all over the body of a bird
- of love - Possible meanings are 1) "of faithfulness" or 2) "of a stork." The name of the stork meant "the faithful one" or "the loving one" because people knew that storks take very good care of their chicks.
- on the earth - "on the ground"
- crush them - The word "them" refers to the eggs.
- trample them - "step on them"