Job 39:11

Creation God's power and sovereignty

⁹ Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night?

¹⁰ Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you?

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

¹² Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³ The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully, but cannot match the pinions and feathers of the stork.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
KJV: Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
WEB: Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?
ASV: Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?
DARBY: Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
BLB: Will you trust in him because his strength [is] great, and will you leave to him your labor?

ÅB: Kan du stole på den, fordi dens kraft er så stor, og kan du overlate den ditt arbeid?
OTB: Vil du stole på ham fordi hans styrke er stor,
Og overlate ditt arbeid til ham?
B1930: Kan du stole på den, fordi dens kraft er så stor, og kan du overlate den ditt arbeid?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 30:6
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
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Isaiah 31:1–3
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
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Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
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Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.
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Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
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Psalms 33:16–17
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
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Psalms 147:10
He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.
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Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
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