Job 39:10
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
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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 the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
11Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labour?
Cross References
Job 1:14that a messenger came to Job, and said, “The oxen were ploughing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
Job 39:7He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
Psalms 129:3The ploughers ploughed on my back. They made their furrows long.
Micah 1:13Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was 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 →