Job 39:9
\39:6\To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8\39:5\Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
10\39:7\He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;
Cross References
Numbers 23:22It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.
Psalms 22:21\22:20\Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.
Isaiah 1:3Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
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 →