Job 39:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? ”

• Job 39:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou trust him? - As thou dost the ox. In the domestic animals great confidence is of necessity placed, and the reliance on the fidelity of the ox and the horse is not usually misplaced. The...

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• Job 39:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  trust . confide in. Hebrew. batah. App-69.

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• Job 39:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

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• Job 39:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Thy labour - rustic work.

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• Job 39:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty (concluded) Chs. Job 38:39-41 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. I...

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• Job 39:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job make...

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• Job 39:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Knowest Thou?” “Canst Thou?” Job 39:1-30 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1-4 ; the wild...

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• Job 39:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameab...

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• Job 39:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (9) Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? (10) Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? (11) Wilt thou trust him,...

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• Job 39:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great ?.... No; tame oxen are employed because they are strong to labour, Psalms 144:14 ; and they are to be trusted, in ploughing or treading out th...

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• Job 39:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Ver. 11. Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? ] Of the unicorn's strength Balaam speaketh...

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• Job 39:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Canst thou bind the unicorn in the furrow? That is, in thy furrowed field, or to, or for the furrow? that is, to make furrows, or to plough, for which work cattle are usually bound together, that t...

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• Job 39:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did...

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• Job 39:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. B. C.  1520....

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• Job 39:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Wilt thou trust him, to wit, for the doing of these works, because he is very able for thy work? And wilt thou by thy power make him willing, or force him, to put forth and spend his strength in th...

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• Job 39:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 39:13 . “ Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich? ” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rend...

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• Job 39:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 39:1 . The wild goat, on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws...

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• Job 39:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 39:1-18 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39 . The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (...

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• Job 39:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth, their homes being on the rocks near the summits of the mountains? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve, noting the t...

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• Job 39:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 1:26 ; Genesis 1:28 ; Genesis 42:26 ; Genesis 9:2 ; Isaiah 30:16 ; Isaiah 30:6 ; Isaiah 31:1-3 ; Isaiah 46:1 ; Proverbs 14:4 ; Psalms 144:14 ; Psalms 147:10 ; Psalms 20:7 ; Psalm...

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