Mysteries of creation
Job 38:25-27, 39:1-4 (NAB)

Who has laid out a channel for the downpour and for the thunderstorm a path
To bring rain to no man's land, the unpeopled wilderness;
To enrich the waste and desolate ground till the desert blooms with verdure? . . .
Do you know about the birth of the mountain goats, watch for the birth pangs of the hinds,
Number the months that they must fulfill, and fix the time of their bringing forth?
They crouch down and bear their young; they deliver their progeny in the desert.
When their offspring thrive and grow, they leave and do not return.

Limits to human dominion
Job 39:9-12 (NRSV)

"Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
     Will it spend the night at your crib?
Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,
     or will it harrow the valleys after you?
Will you depend on it because its strength is great,
     and will you hand over your labor to it?
Do you have faith in it that it will return,
     and bring your grain to your threshing-floor?

Divine majesty and human dignity
Psalm 8 (NIV)

O LORD , our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
above the heavens.
From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise
because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:
all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

O LORD , our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!