Job 39:9
Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?
BSB
ASV
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
KJV
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee,.... Whether there is or ever was such a creature, as described under the name of an unicorn, is a question: it is thought the accounts of it are for the most part fabulous; though Vartomannus (y) says he saw two at Mecca, which came from Ethiopia, the largest of which had a horn in his forehead three cubits long. There are indeed several creatures which may be called "monocerots", who have but one horn; as the "rhinoceros", and the Indian horses and asses (z).
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee? - In the previous part of the argument, God had appealed to the lion, the raven, the goats of the rock, the hind, and the wild ass; and the idea was, that in the instincts of each of these classes of animals, there was some special proof of wisdom.
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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Psalms 92:10But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
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You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,
“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
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Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
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Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
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Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
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God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
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