Job 39:12

12 And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring in thy 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 And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain?

11 And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him?

12 And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring in thy threshing-floor?

13 The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, ,

14 for will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,