Job 39:13
Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
In Context
12Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?
14Wilt thou trust in him, because his strength is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?
Cross References
1 Kings 10:22For the King had on the sea the nauie of Tharshish with the nauie of Hiram: once in three yere came the nauie of Tharshish, and brought golde and siluer, yuorie, and apes and peacockes.
Job 30:29I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches.
Jeremiah 8:7Euen the storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallowe obserue the time of their comming, but my people knoweth not the iudgement of the Lord.
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 →