Job 39:10

And can you fasten it with a rope so that it will plow furrows/trenches in your fields?

Translation for Translators

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

9:Will a wild ox agree to work for you? Will it allow you to keep it penned up at night in the place where you put feed for your animals?

11Since it is very strong, can you trust it to work for you? Can you go away after you tell it what work it should do and assume that it will do that work?

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Cross References

Job 1:14While they were doing that, a messenger arrived at Job’s home and said to him, “While your oxen were plowing the fields and the donkeys were grazing nearby,

Job 39:7They do not like the noise in the cities; in the desert they do not have to listen to the shouts of those who force donkeys to work.

Psalms 129:3Our enemies struck us with whips that cut into our backs [MET] like a farmer uses a plow to cut deep furrows into the ground.”

Micah 1:13You people of Lachish city, whose name sounds like ‘team,’ hitch your horses to pull the chariots in which you can ride to flee from your enemies. The Israeli people rebelled against Yahweh, and you ◄imitated them/did the same evil things that they did►, and that caused the people of Jerusalem [IDM] to start sinning, too.

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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