Job 39:10
Can you detain the rhinoceros with your harness to plough for you, and will he loosen the soil of the furrows behind you?
Catholic Public Domain 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 rhinoceros be willing to serve you, and will he remain in your stall?
11Will you put your faith in his great strength, and delegate your labors to him?
Cross References
Job 1:14a messenger came to Job, who said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing beside them,
Job 39:7He despises the crowded city; he does not pay attention to the bellow of the tax collector.
Psalms 129:3If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere?
Micah 1:13A tumult of four-horse chariots has stupefied the inhabitants of Lachish. The beginning has been sin for the daughter of Zion, because in you have been found the evil deeds of Israel.
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 →