Job Chapter 39 verse 9 Holy Bible

ASV Job 39:9

Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
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BBE Job 39:9

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.
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DARBY Job 39:9

Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
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KJV Job 39:9

Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
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WBT Job 39:9

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
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WEB Job 39:9

"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
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YLT Job 39:9

Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? This is an unfortunate translation, since there is no word etymologicallly correspondent to "unicorn" in the original. The word used is rem or reyrn; and the rem is distinctly said in Deuteronomy 33:17 to have "horns." All that is said of the rim in Scripture points to some species of wild cattle, and recent critics are almost universally agreed thus far at any rate. Assyrian investigation carries us a step further. It is found that the wild bull so often represented on the monuments as hunted by the Ninevite monarchs was known to the Assyrians by the name of rimu or rim. Careful examination of the sculptures has resulted in the identification of this animal with Bee primi-genius an extinct species, probably identical with the urns of the Romans, which Caesar saw in Gaul, and of which he has left a description. "These uri," he says, "are scarcely less than elephants in size, but in their nature, colour, and form are bulls. Great is their strength, and great their speed; nor do they spare man nor beast, when once they have caught sight of him. ... Even when they are young, they cannot be habituated to man and made tractable. The size and shape of their horns are very different from those of our own oxen" ('De Bell. Gall.,' 6:28).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) The unicorn.--It is a mistake to identify this animal with the rhinoceros, as was formerly done; it is more probably the same with the buffalo, or wild ox. The most glaring form of the mistake is in Psalm 22:22 : "Thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns" The way in which the animal is here spoken of, as in analogous contrast to the domestic ox, suggests that it is not wholly dissimilar. It is familiar and homely toil that the wild ox is contemplated as being put to, in the place of tame cattle, whose work it is.