Job 39:12
\39:9\Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
In Context
11\39:8\He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.
13\39:10\Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
Cross References
Proverbs 3:16Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
Haggai 2:19Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
Matthew 13:30Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.
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 →