Job 39:9
: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?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8They go to the hills to find food; there they search for grass to eat.
10And can you fasten it with a rope so that it will plow furrows/trenches in your fields?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt where they were slaves; he is as strong as a wild ox.
Psalms 22:21Snatch me away from my enemies who are like lions whose jaws are already open, ready to chew me up Grab me away from those men who are like wild oxen that attack other animals with their horns [MET]!
Isaiah 1:3Oxen know their owners, and donkeys know who provides food for them, but my Israeli people do not know me; they do not realize that I am the one who takes care of them.”
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 →