Job 39:9
And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
10And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plow furrows for you in the plain?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded 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 →