The LORD Speaks of His Creation
Job 39:9
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
- KJV
- Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
- WEB
- “Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
- ASV
- Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
- LSV
- Is a wild ox willing to serve you? Does he lodge by your crib?
- YLT
- Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
- DBY
- Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
- DRC
- Shall the rhinoceros be willing to serve thee, or will he stay at thy crib?
- GNV39:12
- Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe?
- JPS
- Will the wild-ox be willing to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
- LXXE
- And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger?
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֲיֹ֣אבֶה רֵּ֣ים עָבְדֶ֑ךָ אִם־יָ֝לִ֗ין עַל־אֲבוּסֶֽךָ׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
- LXX-Br
- Βουλήσεται δέ σοι μονόκερως δουλεῦσαι, ἢ κοιμηθῆναι ἐπὶ φάτνης σου;
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
UnicornCribUnicorn (Wild Ox, R. V.)MangerEagleCondescension of GodWill, VolitionReadings, SelectWild OxOmnipotence
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Cross-references most cited first
- Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
- Psalms 92:10But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
- 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…
- Psalms 22:21Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!
- Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 39:9 in most Bibles