Job 39:10
Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
In Context
9Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
11Will thou trust him because his strength is great? Or will thou leave to him thy labor?
Cross References
Job 1:14that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shoutings of the driver.
Psalms 129:3The plowers plowed upon my back. They made long their furrows.
Micah 1:13Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:2-13
Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5… Read the whole commentary →