Job 39:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? ”

• Job 39:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou believe him? - That is, wilt thou trust him with the productions of the field? The idea is, that he was an untamed and unsubdued animal. He could not be governed, like the camel or the...

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• Job 39:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? That he will bring home thy seed - Thou canst make no domestic nor agricultural use of him.

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• Job 39:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? Believe - trust. Seed - produce х zera` ( H2233 )] ( 1 Samuel 8:15 ). Into thy barn - rather,...

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• Job 39:12 - 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 39:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wilt thou believe him? — i.e., trust him, as in the former verse “Wilt thou [trust” was, rather, Wilt thou feel confidence in him?

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• Job 39:12 - 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 39:12 - 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 39:12 - 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 39:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (12) Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? (13) В¶ Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? (14) Which l...

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• Job 39:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed ?.... Draw in the cart, and bring home the ripe sheaves of corn, as the tame ox does? no; thou knowest him too well to believe he will bring it...

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• Job 39:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn? Ver. 12. Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed ] That is, the crop that comes of thy seed;...

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• Job 39:12 - 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 39:12 - 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 39:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Will bring home thy seed, Heb. will return thy seed ; either, 1. By ploughing and harrowing thy land so well that it shall make a good return to thee for thy seed. Or rather, 2. By bringing in...

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• Job 39:12 - 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 39:12 - 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 39:12 - 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 39:12 - 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 39:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 2:13 ; Haggai 2:19 ; Matthew 13:30 ; Matthew 3:2 ; Nehemiah 13:15 ; Proverbs 3:16

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