Job 39:9
“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
World English 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 mountains is his pasture. He searches after every green thing.
10Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
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 →