God asks 'Who has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the cock?' shifting from weather and celestial phenomena to animal life. The questions about wisdom and understanding in animals suggest that even animals possess capacities that suggest divine action in their formation. The ibis (or possibly other birds) and the cock (rooster) apparently possess wisdom or understanding that enables them to function effectively. Job's inability to have granted such wisdom to animals establishes that divine creative action extends to the capacities of even humble creatures. The shift to animals suggests a shift toward the final section of God's questions about animal life. The accumulation of questions about what Job has not done—laid foundations, commanded weather, guided stars, granted wisdom to animals—builds toward a comprehensive indictment of human presumption to judge what Job has not and cannot do.

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