Job 39:9
It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
In Context
8Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
10He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer.
Cross References
Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt: their strength is as an vnicorne.
Psalms 22:21Saue me from the lyons mouth, and answere me in sauing me from the hornes of the vnicornes.
Isaiah 1:3The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not knowen: my people hath not vnderstand.
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 →