Job 39:12

12 numquid credes ei quoniam reddat sementem tibi et aream tuam congreget

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 numquid alligabis rinocerota ad arandum loro tuo aut confringet glebas vallium post te
11 numquid fiduciam habebis in magna fortitudine eius et derelinques ei labores tuos
12 numquid credes ei quoniam reddat sementem tibi et aream tuam congreget
13 pinna strutionum similis est pinnis herodii et accipitris
14 quando derelinquit in terra ova sua tu forsitan in pulvere calefacis ea
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