Job 39:12

12 Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and [that] it will 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 tie [the] wild ox [with] its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow [the] valleys after you?

11 Can you trust it because its strength [is] great, or will you hand your labor over to it?

12 Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and [that] it will gather [it] to your threshing floor?

13 "[The] wings of [the] female ostrich flap-- [are they] [the] pinions of [the] stork or [the] falcon?

14 Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth, and it lets [them] be warmed on [the] ground,