Job 39:12

12 Can you trust the ox to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

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 hold it to the plowed row with a harness so it will plow the valleys for you?

11 Will you depend on the wild ox for its great strength and leave your heavy work for it to do?

12 Can you trust the ox to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

13 "The wings of the ostrich flap happily, but they are not like the feathers of the stork.

14 The ostrich lays its eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.