Job 39:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?”
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BSBPD
“Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 39:9 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
- Deuteronomy 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
- Psalms 22:21Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!
- Psalms 92:10But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
- Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
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