Job 39:11
Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
BSB
ASV
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?
KJV
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and wilt thou leave to him thy labours? [MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION] 33. The Lord had confidence in the strength of this rhinoceros; because the more He endured him cruelly inflicting hardships upon Him, the more firmly He foresaw him enduring adversities for His sake. To whom also He left the labours, which He Himself had endured in the flesh; because He led him when converted even to the imitation of His own Passion.
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 idea here is, that the unicorn could not be so tamed that important interests could be safely entrusted to him. Because his strength is great? - Wilt thou consider his strength as a reason why important interests might be entrusted to him?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the…
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what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
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Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
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Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature…
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And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.