Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
Parallel translations
- KJV Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
- BSB Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?
- NKJV Will you trust him to bring home your grain, And gather it to your threshing floor?
- NASB “Will you have faith in him that he will return your grain And gather it from your threshing floor?
- NLT Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver it to your threshing floor?
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Quick answer
Can Job count on the wild ox to bring in his harvest and gather grain to the threshing floor? It will do no such thing.
Overview
The LORD asks if Job can rely on the wild ox to reap and haul his crops. The untamable beast offers no such help. The closing question of this section drives home how little of creation answers to human command, while all of it answers to God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Hag 2:19Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
- Amos 2:13Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
- Neh 13:15In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.
- Matt 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
- Matt 3:2“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
- Prov 3:16Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
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