Job 39:12

12 Do you expect him to bring in your harvest and gather the grain from your threshing place?

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 one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?

11 Can you rely on his great strength and expect him to do your heavy work?

12 Do you expect him to bring in your harvest and gather the grain from your threshing place?

13 How fast the wings of an ostrich beat! But no ostrich can fly like a stork.

14 The ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground for the heat in the soil to warm them.