Job 39:10

Good News Translation

Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Can you hold the wild ox to a furrow by its harness?Will it plow the valleys behind you?

Hebrew Names Version
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

King James Version
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

English Standard Version
Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

New Century Version
Can you hold it to the plowed row with a harness so it will plow the valleys for you?

New English Translation
Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

Amplified Bible
"Can you bind the wild ox with a harness [to the plow] in the furrow? Or will he plow the valleys for you?

New American Standard Bible
"Can you tie down the wild bull in a furrow with ropes, Or will he plow the valleys after you?

World English Bible
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee?

Legacy Standard Bible
Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes,Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Berean Standard Bible
Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

Contemporary English Version
Could you force him to plow or to drag a heavy log to smooth out the soil?

Complete Jewish Bible
Could you tie a rope around its neck and make it plow furrows for you?

Darby Translation
Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Easy-to-Read Version
Will he let you put ropes on him to plow your fields?

George Lamsa Translation
Can you bind the yoke on the neck of the unicorn? Or will he harrow in a rugged place?

Lexham English Bible
Can you tie the wild ox with its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow the valleys after you?

Literal Translation
Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Cast thou bynde ye yock aboute him in thy forowes, to make him plowe after the in ye valleis?

American Standard Version
Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Bible in Basic English
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

King James Version (1611)
Canst thou binde the Unicorne with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleyes after thee?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Canst thou binde the yoke about the vnicorne in the forowe, to make him plowe after thee in the valleyes?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain?

English Revised Version
Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether thou schalt bynde the vnicorn with thi chayne, for to ere, ethir schal he breke the clottis of valeis aftir thee?

Update Bible Version
Can you bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Webster's Bible Translation
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

New King James Version
Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

New Living Translation
Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow? Will it plow a field for you?

New Life Bible
Can you tie the wild ox to a plow in the field? Will he follow you to plow the valleys?

New Revised Standard
Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes, or will it harrow the valleys after you?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that - with the ridge - shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?

Revised Standard Version
Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow [with] his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes, Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

Contextual Overview

¹ Do you know when mountain goats are born? Have you watched wild deer give birth? ² Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth? ³ Do you know when they will crouch down and bring their young into the world? ⁴ In the wilds their young grow strong; they go away and don't come back. ⁵ Who gave the wild donkeys their freedom? Who turned them loose and let them roam? ⁶ I gave them the desert to be their home, and let them live on the salt plains. ⁷ They keep far away from the noisy cities, and no one can tame them and make them work. ⁸ The mountains are the pastures where they feed, where they search for anything green to eat. ⁹ Will a wild ox work for you? Is he willing to spend the night in your stable? ¹⁰ Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 39:5, Job 39:7, Job 1:14, Job 41:5, Psalms 129:3, Hosea 10:10, Hosea 10:11, Micah 1:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:22 - the strength Deuteronomy 33:17 - his horns Psalms 22:21 - horns Isaiah 34:7 - unicorns

Cross-References

Genesis 39:8
He refused and said to her, "Look, my master does not have to concern himself with anything in the house, because I am here. He has put me in charge of everything he has.

Proverbs 1:15
My child, don't go with people like that. Stay away from them.

Proverbs 2:16
You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,

Proverbs 5:3
The lips of another man's wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil,

Proverbs 5:8
Keep away from such a woman! Don't even go near her door!

Proverbs 7:5
They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive words.

Proverbs 7:13
She threw her arms around the young man, kissed him, looked him straight in the eye, and said,

Proverbs 9:14
She sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the highest part of town,

Proverbs 9:16
"Come in, ignorant people!" To the foolish she says,

Proverbs 22:14
Adultery is a trap—it catches those with whom the Lord is angry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?.... Put the yoke and harness upon him, and fasten it to the plough to draw it, that he may make furrows with it in the field, or plough up the ground as the tame ox does? thou canst not;

or will he harrow the valleys after thee? draw the harrow which is used after ploughing to break the clods, and make the land smooth and even? he will not: valleys are particularly mentioned, because arable land is usually in them; see Psalms 65:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? - That is, with the common traces or cords which are employed in binding oxen to the plow.

Or will he harrow the valleys after thee? - The word “valleys” here is used to denote such ground as was capable of being plowed or harrowed. Hills and mountains could not thus be cultivated, though the spade was in common use in planting the vine there, and even in preparing them for seed, Isaiah 7:25. The phrase “after thee” indicates that the custom of driving cattle in harrowing then was the same as that practiced now with oxen, when the person who employs them goes in advance of them. It shows that they were entirely under subjection, and it is here implied that the ראם r^e'êm could not be thus tamed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 39:10. Canst thou bind the unicorn - in the furrow? — He will not plough, nor draw in the yoke with another? nor canst thou use him singly, to harrow the ground.