Job 39:10
Can you tie a wild ox to a plow? Can you make it till your fields for you?
Free Bible 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
9Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your manger?
11Because it's so powerful can you trust it? Can you depend on it to do your heavy work for you?
Cross References
Job 1:14a messenger came to Job and told him, “As the oxen were plowing and female donkeys were grazing nearby,
Job 39:7It despises the noise of the city; it doesn't need to listen to the shouts of a driver.
Psalms 129:3They beat me on my back, leaving long furrows as if it had been plowed by a farmer.
Micah 1:13Harness the team of horses to the chariot, you people of Lachish, because the sins of the people of Jerusalem began with you, for the sins of Israel were first found in you.
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 →