Parallel Verses
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?
International Standard Version
Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near 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
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
9
Or will he spend the night at your manger?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Numbers 23:22
God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull.
Deuteronomy 33:17
As the firstborn of his bulls, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild bull. With them he will push the peoples, all at once, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.
Psalm 92:10
But you exalt my horn (make me as strong) as a wild bull. I have been anointed with soothing lotion.
Psalm 22:21
Save me from the mouth of the lion and from the horns of wild oxen. You have answered me.
Isaiah 1:3
The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!