Job 39:9

Will the wild ox be willing to be thy eved, 1 or stay the night by thy evus (animal feeding trough)? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

In Context

8The range of the harim is his pasture, 1 and he searcheth after every green thing. 1

10Canst thou bind the wild ox to the furrow with a rope, 1 or will it behind thee till the amakim (valleys)? 1

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Cross References

Numbers 23:22El brought them out of Mitzrayim; 1 He is for them like the strength of a wild ox. 1

Psalms 22:21Deliver my nefesh from the cherev, 1 my yechid (only one, only) [nefesh] from the power of the kelev (dog). 1

Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, 1 and the donkey his masterʼs evus; 1 but Yisroel doth not know, 1 My people doth not consider. 1

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 →

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