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Job 39:9
Job 39:9 is verse 9 of Job chapter 39, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
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?
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Job 39:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
8 He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
9 Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
10 Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?
11 Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.”