Sustenance for Animals

When Rav Yochanan would see the kind of bird that catches fish from the water, he would say, “Mishpatecha tehom rabbah – Your judgments are as deep as an abyss” (Tehillim 36:7). When Hashem judges someone, the person needs to exert himself to great depths.

When he would see an ant, whose sustenance is available to it without any effort, he would say, “Tzidkas’cha kehareirei kel – Your righteousness is like the greatest of mountains,” Even for a creature as small as an ant – its sustenance is available to it just as for large creatures.

(Chullin 63a)