New King James Version
Job 39:12
12Will you trust him to bring home your grain, And gather it to your threshing floor?
Job 39:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
- New International Version (NIV)Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver it to your threshing floor?
Context of Job 39:12
10Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you? 11Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him? 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? 14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, And warms them in the dust;
Read all of Job 39Job 39:12 word by word
הֲתַאֲמִ֣ין בּ֭וֹ כִּי־יָשִׁ֣יב זַרְעֶ֑ךָ וְֽגָרְנְךָ֥ יֶאֱסֹֽף׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 39:12
- Nehemiah 13:15In those days I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them about the day on which they were selling provisions.
- Amos 2:13“Behold, I am weighed down by you, As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.
- Proverbs 3:16Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor.
- Haggai 2:19Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’ ”
- Matthew 3:2and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
- Matthew 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
Commentaries on Job 39:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12That he will bring home thy seed - Thou canst make no domestic nor agricultural use of him.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Wilt thou believe him? - That is, wilt thou trust him with the productions of the field? The idea is, that he was an untamed and unsubdued animal. He could not be governed, like the camel or the ox. If the sheaves of the harvest were laid on him, there would be no certainty that he would convey them where the farmer wished them. And gather it into thy barn? - Or, rather, “to thy threshing-floor,” for so the word used here (גרן gôren ) means. It was not…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. 1212. believe--trust. seed--produce (1Sa 8:15). into thy barn--rather, "gather (the contents of) thy threshing-floor" [Maurer]; the corn threshed on it.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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