Job 39:9
Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
Darby Translation
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 searcheth after every green thing.
10Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.
Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.
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 →