Job 39:11

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Can you depend on it because its strength is great?Would you leave it to do your hard work?

Hebrew Names Version
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

King James Version
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

English Standard Version
Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

New Century Version
Will you depend on the wild ox for its great strength and leave your heavy work for it to do?

New English Translation
Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

Amplified Bible
"Will you trust him because his strength is great And leave your labor to him?

New American Standard Bible
"Will you trust him because his strength is great, And leave your labor to him?

World English Bible
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wilt thou trust in him, because his stregth is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him?

Legacy Standard Bible
Will you trust him because his power is greatAnd leave your labor to him?

Berean Standard Bible
Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

Contemporary English Version
Can you depend on him to use his great strength and do your heavy work?

Complete Jewish Bible
Would you trust its great strength enough to let it do your heavy work,

Darby Translation
Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Easy-to-Read Version
A wild bull is very strong, but can you trust him to do your work?

George Lamsa Translation
Will you have confidence in him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

Good News Translation
Can you rely on his great strength and expect him to do your heavy work?

Lexham English Bible
Can you trust it because its strength is great, or will you hand your labor over to it?

Literal Translation
Will you trust him because his strength is great; or will you leave your labor to him?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Mayest thou trust hi (because he is stroge) or comitte thy labor vnto hi?

American Standard Version
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?

Bible in Basic English
Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

King James Version (1611)
Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great? or wilt thou leaue thy labour to him?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Mayst thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour vnto him?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou commit thy works to him?

English Revised Version
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave to him thy labour?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether thou schalt haue trist in his grete strengthe, and schalt thou leeue to hym thi traueils?

Update Bible Version
Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?

Webster's Bible Translation
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labor to him?

New King James Version
Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

New Living Translation
Given its strength, can you trust it? Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?

New Life Bible
Will you trust in him because he is very strong, and leave your work to him?

New Revised Standard
Will you depend on it because its strength is great, and will you hand over your labor to it?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wilt thou trust in him, because of the greatness of his strength? Wilt thou leave unto him thy toil?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and leave thy labours to him?

Revised Standard Version
Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Will you trust him because his strength is great And leave your labor to him?

Contextual Overview

¹"Do you know the month when mountain goats give birth? Have you ever watched a doe bear her fawn? Do you know how many months she is pregnant? Do you know the season of her delivery, when she crouches down and drops her offspring? Her young ones flourish and are soon on their own; they leave and don't come back. ⁵"Who do you think set the wild donkey free, opened the corral gates and let him go? I gave him the whole wilderness to roam in, the rolling plains and wide-open places. He laughs at his city cousins, who are harnessed and harried. He's oblivious to the cries of teamsters. He grazes freely through the hills, nibbling anything that's green. ⁹"Will the wild buffalo condescend to serve you, volunteer to spend the night in your barn? Can you imagine hitching your plow to a buffalo and getting him to till your fields? He's hugely strong, yes, but could you trust him, would you dare turn the job over to him? You wouldn't for a minute depend on him, would you, to do what you said when you said it?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

trust: Psalms 20:7, Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:17, Psalms 147:10, Isaiah 30:16, Isaiah 31:1-3

leave: Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:2, Genesis 42:26, Psalms 144:14, Proverbs 14:4, Isaiah 30:6, Isaiah 46:1

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:22 - the strength

Cross-References

Malachi 3:5
"Yes, I'm on my way to visit you with Judgment. I'll present compelling evidence against sorcerers, adulterers, liars, those who exploit workers, those who take advantage of widows and orphans, those who are inhospitable to the homeless—anyone and everyone who doesn't honor me." A Message from God -of-the-Angel-Armies.

Ephesians 5:3
Don't allow love to turn into lust, setting off a downhill slide into sexual promiscuity, filthy practices, or bullying greed. Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great?.... No; tame oxen are employed because they are strong to labour,

Psalms 144:14; and they are to be trusted, in ploughing or treading out the corn, under direction, because they are manageable, and will attend to business with constancy; but the wild ox, though stronger, and so fitter for labour, is yet not to be trusted, because unruly and unmanageable: if that sort of wild oxen called "uri" could be thought to be meant, for which Bootius h contends, Caesar's account of them would agree with this character of the "reem", as to his great strength: he says of them i, they are in size a little smaller than elephants, of the kind, colour, and shape of a bull; they are of great strength and of great swiftness, and not to be tamed;

or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? to plough thy fields, to harrow thy lands, and to bring home the ripe corn? as in Job 39:12; thou wilt not.

h Animadvers. Sacr. l. 3. c. 1. s. 14. i Comment. de Bello Gall. l. 6. c. 27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wilt 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, the camel, the horse, and the elephant was a reason why their aid was sought by man to do what he could not himself do. The idea is, that man could not make use of the same reason for employing the rhinoceros.

Wilt thou leave thy labour to him? - Or, rather, the avails of thy labor - the harvest.