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10Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Job 39:10

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  • It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. …

  • Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

  • Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

  • The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

  • And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

God here shows Job what little acquaintance he had with the untamed creatures that run wild in the deserts and live at large, but are the care of the divine Providence. As, I. The wild goats and the hinds . That which is taken notice of concerning them is the bringing forth and bringing up of their young ones. For, as every individual is fed, so every species of animals is preserved, by the care o…

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