Job 39:10
Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
Majority Standard Bible
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 wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
11Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
Cross References
Job 1:14a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
Psalms 129:3The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
Micah 1:13Harness your chariot horses, O dweller of Lachish. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
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 →