Job 39:12

12 You wouldn't for a minute depend on him, would you, to do what you said when you said it?

Job 39:12 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:12

Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed?
&c.] 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 home in safety;

and gather [it into] thy barn;
to be trodden out, which used to be done by oxen in those times: if therefore Job could not manage such unruly creatures as the wild ass and the wild ox, and make them serviceable to him, how unfit must he be to govern the world, or to direct in the affairs of Providence?

Job 39:12 In-Context

10 Can you imagine hitching your plow to a buffalo and getting him to till your fields?

11 He's hugely strong, yes, but could you trust him, would you dare turn the job over to him?

12 You wouldn't for a minute depend on him, would you, to do what you said when you said it?

13 "The ostrich flaps her wings futilely - all those beautiful feathers, but useless!

14 She lays her eggs on the hard ground, leaves them there in the dirt, exposed to the weather,