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King James Version

Job 39:12

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barn;   God;   Unicorn (Wild Ox, Rsv);   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Unicorn;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Unicorn;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Barn;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Unicorn;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knowledge;   Nature;   Unicorn;   World;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wild-Ox;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Buffalo;   Unicorn;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Will you believe him that he will return your seed of grainAnd gather it from your threshing floor?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Will you have faith in him that he will return your grain And gather it from your threshing floor?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Mayst thou beleue him that he wyll bring home thy corne, or carry any thing vnto thy barne?
Darby Translation
Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
New King James Version
Will you trust him to bring home your grain, And gather it to your threshing floor?
Literal Translation
Or will you have faith in him, that he will return your seed, and gather it to your grain-floor?
Easy-to-Read Version
Can you trust him to gather your grain and bring it to your threshing place?
World English Bible
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor?
King James Version (1611)
Wilt thou beleeue him that hee will bring home thy seed? and gather it into thy barne?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Mayest thou beleue hi, yt he wil brige home yi corne, or to cary eny thinge vnto yi barne?
American Standard Version
Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gather the grain of thy threshing-floor?
Bible in Basic English
Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
Update Bible Version
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather [the grain] of your threshing-floor?
Webster's Bible Translation
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn?
New English Translation
Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?
Contemporary English Version
Can you trust him to harvest your grain or take it to your barn from the threshing place?
Complete Jewish Bible
or rely on it to bring home your seed and gather the grain from your threshing-floor?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne?
George Lamsa Translation
Do you trust him, that he will winnow your threshing and gather your grain into the barn?
Amplified Bible
"Will you have faith and depend on him to return your grain And gather it from your threshing floor?
Hebrew Names Version
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, And gather the grain of your threshing floor?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wilt thou rely on him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the corn of thy threshing-floor?
New Living Translation
Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver it to your threshing floor?
New Life Bible
Will you trust him to return and bring your grain to your grain-floor?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring it in to thy threshing-floor?
English Revised Version
Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the corn of thy threshingfloor?
Berean Standard Bible
Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
New Revised Standard
Do you have faith in it that it will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wilt thou put faith in him, that he will bring back thy seed? and that, corn for thy threshing-floor, he will gather?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
Lexham English Bible
Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and that it will gather it to your threshing floor?
English Standard Version
Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
New American Standard Bible
"Will you have faith in him that he will return your grain And gather it from your threshing floor?
New Century Version
Can you trust the ox to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
Good News Translation
Do you expect him to bring in your harvest and gather the grain from your threshing place?
Christian Standard Bible®
Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether thou schalt bileue to hym, that he schal yelde seed to thee, and schal gadere togidere thi cornfloor?
Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And [to] thy threshing-floor doth gather [it]?
Revised Standard Version
Do you have faith in him that he will return, and bring your grain to your threshing floor?

Contextual Overview

1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. 9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? 10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he: Nehemiah 13:15, Amos 2:13

gather: Proverbs 3:16, Haggai 2:19, Matthew 3:2, Matthew 13:30

Cross-References

Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
Genesis 39:10
And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
Genesis 39:13
And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,
1 Samuel 15:27
And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
Proverbs 1:15
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Proverbs 6:5
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed?.... Draw in the cart, and bring home the ripe sheaves of corn, as the tame ox does? no; thou knowest him too well to believe he will bring it home in safety;

and gather [it into] thy barn; to be trodden out, which used to be done by oxen in those times: if therefore Job could not manage such unruly creatures as the wild ass and the wild ox, and make them serviceable to him, how unfit must he be to govern the world, or to direct in the affairs of Providence?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wilt 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 common to gather a harvest into a barn, but it was usually collected on a hard-trod place and there threshed and winnowed. For the use of the word, see Ruth 3:2; Judges 6:37; Numbers 18:30; Isaiah 21:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 39:12. That he will bring home thy seed — Thou canst make no domestic nor agricultural use of him.


 
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