510 Arthur Walker-Jones laugh-like calls and the ability to soar in the heavens may seem to mock the horse. The world is more enigmatic and complex than Job and his friends had imagined. University of Winnipeg – Arthur WALKER-JONES Faculty of Theology 515 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9 – Canada SUMMARY The so-called ostrich passage (39,13-18) has been much discussed by scholars both because of the difficulties it presents and the importance of its position in the book of Job. Discussions have focused on why an ostrich appears, rather than whether the µynnr is, in fact, an ostrich. Quite a number of Hebrew words and expressions have to be emended or explained to make them fit an ostrich. Moreover, H.-P. Müller has shown that µynnr is not the name for ostrich in Hebrew or any Semitic languages, is not translated “ostrich” in early Greek versions, the Peshitta, or Targums, and the translation “ostrich” probably came from a false identification in early Christian reflection on nature. This article uses contem- porary ornithological literature and the information the passage provides on the nest, habitat, behaviours, and calls of the µynnr to identify a more likely type of bird. The identification of the µynnr as a sand grouse helps resolve a number of problems in the text and clarify the literary connections of the passage to the rest of the animal discourse, God speeches, and book of Job.