All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
Sheep - `flocks,' margin; made up of sheep, goats, and such, smaller animals.
Beasts Hebre 'Behemoth' (Job 40:15): need here for the larger qnadr peds Compare Genesis 1:21 From Gen Beasts - Hebrew, 'Behemoth' (Job 40:15): need here for the larger qnadrupeds. Compare Genesis 1:21. From Genesis 9:2, as well as daily experience, it is shown that man, even though fallen, retains some of his sovereignty over the animal world. No animal is so strong and savage but that man, though relatively weak, in time becomes its master (James 3:7). Still there is this great difference between man's sovereignty now and what it was before the fall; then at was a voluntary submission; now it is a constrained one. As man revolted against his Lord, so the subject animals have revolted against man. He must maintain against them, as against the resisting earth, a conflict, employing art and cunning; and though on the whole he remains conqueror, yet he has to suffer many defeats (Hengstenberg).
Of the field. (Compare Genesis 2:19.) Man's feet dominion over the animal world shall be restored in Messiah's kingdom.