Job 39:9

Will the unicorn (p. ox) be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?

Updated King James Version

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Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

In Context

8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.

10Can you bind the unicorn (p. ox) with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after you?

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Cross References

Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn (p. ox).

Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not 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 →

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