Job 39:26

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

“Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

went by pairs to Noah into the ship, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

But the meat of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside of the camp. It is a sin offering.

if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has sinned a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering.

“Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

“Aaron shall present the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bull of the sin offering which is for himself.

Then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the Tent of Meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

“The Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.

The donkey saw Yahweh’s angel standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned out of the path, and went into the field. Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the path.

the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,

“But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.

For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.