Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?
New American Standard Bible
Or will he spend the night at your manger?
King James Version
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
Holman Bible
Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?
A Conservative Version
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
American Standard Version
Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?
Amplified
“Will the wild ox be willing to serve you,
Or remain beside your manger at night?
Bible in Basic English
Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
Darby Translation
Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
Julia Smith Translation
Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy stall?
King James 2000
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or abide by your crib?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Is [the] wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?
Modern King James verseion
Will the wild ox be willing to serve you, or spend the night by your feed-trough?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Will the unicorn be so tame as to do the service, or to abide still by thy crib?
NET Bible
Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?
New Heart English Bible
"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
The Emphasized Bible
Will the Wild-Ox be pleased to be thy servant? or lodge for the night by thy crib?
Webster
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
World English Bible
"Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is a Reem willing to serve thee? Doth he lodge by thy crib?
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wild Ox
8 He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green. 9 Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough? 10 Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Numbers 23:22
From Egypt God brought them his strength was like a wild ox!
Deuteronomy 33:17
May the firstborn of his bull be honorable to him, and may his horns be those of a wild ox. With them may he push people all together, to the ends of the earth. These are the myriads of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh."
Psalm 92:10
You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.
Psalm 22:21
Deliver me from the mouth of the lion, from the horns of the wild oxen. You have answered me.
Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding trough, but Israel doesn't know, and my people don't understand.