Job 39:9
Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Does he lodge by your crib?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8The range of mountains [is] his pasture, || And he seeks after every green thing.
10Do you bind a wild ox in a furrow [with] his thick band? Does he harrow valleys after you?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God is bringing them out from Egypt, || As the swiftness of a wild ox for him;
Psalms 22:21Save Me from the mouth of a lion || And You have answered Me from the horns of the high places!
Isaiah 1:3An ox has known its owner, || And a donkey the crib of its master, || Israel has not known, || My people have not understood.”
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 →