Job 39:9
Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
Psalms 22:21Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
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 →