Job 39:12

12 Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?

Job 39:12 in Other Translations

12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

12 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

12 Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver it to your threshing floor?

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

12 Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring [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 furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you?

11 Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it?

12 Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?

13 “The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, though they cannot compare with the wings and feathers of the stork.

14 She lays her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand,