Job 39:12

12 Will you trust him to bring home 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 bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

11 Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

12 Will you trust him to bring home your grain, And gather it to your threshing floor?

13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork's?

14 For she leaves her eggs on the ground, And warms them in the dust;