Job 39:9
Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your manger?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8It hunts in the mountains for pastureland, searching for all kinds of green plants to eat.
10Can you tie a wild ox to a plow? Can you make it till your fields for you?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God led them out of Egypt with great power, as strong as an ox.
Psalms 22:21Rescue me from the mouth of the lion and from the wild bulls!
Isaiah 1:3An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.
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 →