Job 39:9
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
10Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God brings them forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion's mouth, yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen. Thou have answered me.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.
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 →