New King James Version
Job 39:11
11Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?
Job 39:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
- New International Version (NIV)Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Given its strength, can you trust it? Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?
Context of Job 39:11
9“Will the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger? 10Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you? Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him? 12Will 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?
Read all of Job 39Job 39:11 word by word
הֲֽתִבְטַח־בּ֭וֹ כִּי־רַ֣ב כֹּח֑וֹ וְתַעֲזֹ֖ב אֵלָ֣יו יְגִיעֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 39:11
- Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
- Psalms 33:16No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
- Psalms 147:10He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
- Isaiah 30:16And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”— Therefore you shall flee! And, “We will ride on swift horses”— Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!
- Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, And rely on horses, Who trust in chariots because they are many, And in horsemen because they are very strong, But who do not look to the Holy One of Israel, Nor seek the Lord!
- Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- Genesis 9:2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.
- Genesis 42:26So they loaded their donkeys with the grain and departed from there.
- Psalms 144:14That our oxen may be well laden; That there be no breaking in or going out; That there be no outcry in our streets.
- Proverbs 14:4Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; But much increase comes by the strength of an ox.
- Isaiah 30:6The burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery flying serpent, They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not profit;
- Isaiah 46:1Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; Their idols were on the beasts and on the cattle. Your carriages were heavily loaded, A burden to the weary beast.
Commentaries on Job 39:11
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Wilt thou trust him? - As thou dost the ox. In the domestic animals great confidence is of necessity placed, and the reliance on the fidelity of the ox and the horse is not usually misplaced. The idea here is, that the unicorn could not be so tamed that important interests could be safely entrusted to him. Because his strength is great? - Wilt thou consider his strength as a reason why important interests might be entrusted to him? The strength of the ox…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-12The wild ox now no longer exists and was already rare by the time of Moses. It was the strongest land animal in early Canaan. They never tamed this Old Testament symbol of strength (Numbers 23:22; 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Psalms 29:6; 92:10; compare Genesis 1:28; 9:2; Psalm 8:5–6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. thy labour--rustic work.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 39
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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