约伯记 39:9-10 RCUVSS

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 39:10

Job 39:10Will he harrow the valleys after thee? Will he harrow the valleys after theeWhat more humiliating proof have we of the depravity of the human heart, than the arrogant assumption of deciding on God’s plans, and censuring His providential government, when we are so entirely ignorant of the most simple and ordinary occurrences in Nature? This was the error into which Job had fallen. Harrowing so tears and disturbs the ground, that it has, from the earliest ages, been considered as a fit... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 39:9

Job 39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Ver. 9. Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee? ] The rhinoceros, saith the Vulgate: but that is another kind of beast, so called from the growing of his horn from his nose ( Naricornis ). This is the monoceros or unicorn, which cannot be taken alive ( interimi potest, capi non potest ), as the rhinoceros may. A very fierce and strong creature it is; and today very rare, but anciently more common. He hath one horn... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 39:10

Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? Ver. 10. Canst thou bind the unicorn? &c. ] To keep him in order, and to hold him hard to his work, that he may lay the furrows even? Canst thou tether or gear him, like a horse? Or wilt he be brought to drive or lead a plough or harrow? No such matter. Before the Fall all creatures would gladly have served man. Sed rebellis facta est, quia homo numini, creatura homini (August.). read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 39:9

the: Numbers 23:22, Deuteronomy 33:17, Psalms 22:21, Psalms 92:10 or: Isaiah 1:3 Reciprocal: Genesis 1:24 - Let Isaiah 34:7 - unicorns read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 39:10

Job 39:5, Job 39:7, Job 1:14, Job 41:5, Psalms 129:3, Hosea 10:10, Hosea 10:11, Micah 1:13 Reciprocal: Numbers 23:22 - the strength Deuteronomy 33:17 - his horns Psalms 22:21 - horns Isaiah 34:7 - unicorns read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 39:9

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?Unicorn — It is disputed whether this be the Rhinoceros; or a kind of wild bull. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 39:9

Second long strophe JOB’S ATTENTION IS DIRECTED TO THE NONDESCRIPT AND UNTAMEABLE REEM, (WILD BULL,) AND TO THE OSTRICH, WITH HER STRANGE PROPERTIES OF STUPIDITY AND DEFICIENT AFFECTION, Job 39:9-18. α . The reem, in its structure, resembles the ox so much so as to be classed under the same genus; but no man can reduce him to the plough or harrow, or any servile office. Job, perhaps, can account for so trifling a matter as this, that so much latent power of this creature (“because his... read more