Job 39:9
Will the forest-ox be willing to serve thee, or will he stay over night at thy crib?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8What he espieth on the mountains is his pasture, and after every green thing doth he search.
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God, who brought them out of Egypt, is to them like the heights of the reem.
Psalms 22:21(22:22) Save me from the lion's mouth; as thou hast answered me from the horns of the reem.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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 →