Job 39:9 “Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at…”

Job 39:9

Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

American Standard Version

Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

Geneva Bible 1599

It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.

Darby Translation

Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?

Young's Literal Translation

Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?

Bible in Basic English

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

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Cross references

“the”

Numbers 23:22 Deuteronomy 33:17 Psalm 92:10 Psalm 22:21

Numbers 23:22 · BSB

God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.

Deuteronomy 33:17 · BSB

His 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.…

Psalm 92:10 · BSB

But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

Psalm 22:21 · BSB

Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!

“or”

Isaiah 1:3

Isaiah 1:3 · BSB

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.

10Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

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