Job 39:10
Canst thou bind the forest-ox with a rope [to labor] in the furrow? or will he harrow valleys, following after thee?
Leeser Tanakh
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
9Will the forest-ox be willing to serve thee, or will he stay over night at thy crib?
11Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave to him thy labor?
Cross References
Job 1:14That a messenger came unto Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the she-asses were feeding beside them:
Job 39:7He laugheth at the noise of a town, and the shoutings of the driver he heareth not.
Psalms 129:3Upon my back have ploughmen ploughed; they have drawn long their furrows:
Micah 1:13Bind the chariot to the swift horses, O inhabitress of Lachish: the beginning of sin was she to the daughter of Zion; for in thee were found the transgressions of Israel.
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 →