Job 39:9
Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8He looketh round about the mountains of his pasture, and seeketh for every green thing.
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
Psalms 22:21Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
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 →