Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys?
New American Standard Bible
Or will he harrow the valleys after you?
King James Version
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Holman Bible
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
International Standard Version
Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?
A Conservative Version
Can thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
American Standard Version
Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Amplified
“Can you bind the wild ox with a harness [to the plow] in the furrow?
Or will he plow the valleys for you?
Bible in Basic English
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
Darby Translation
Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou bind the buffalo in the furrow with cords, or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
King James 2000
Can you bind the wild ox with ropes in the furrow? or will he plow the valleys behind you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Can you tie [the] wild ox [with] its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow [the] valleys after you?
Modern King James verseion
Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?
NET Bible
Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?
New Heart English Bible
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
The Emphasized Bible
Canst thou bind the wild-ox, so that - with the ridge - shall run his cord? Or will he harrow the furrows after thee?
Webster
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
World English Bible
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
Youngs Literal Translation
Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow with his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?
Themes
Agriculture » Operations in » Harrowing
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Cord » Ancient uses of » Hitching to cart or plough
Interlinear
`aboth
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wild Ox
9 Will the unicorn be so tame as to do the service, or to abide still by thy crib? 10 Canst thou bind the yoke about him in thy furrows, to make him plow after thee in the valleys? 11 Mayest thou trust him because he is strong, or commit thy labour unto him?
Names
Cross References
Job 1:14
there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,
Job 39:5
Who letteth the wild ass go free, or who looseth the bonds of the mule?
Job 39:7
That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver,
Job 41:5
Wilt thou take thy pastime with him as with a bird? Or give him unto thy maidens,
Psalm 129:3
The plowers plowed upon my back, and made long furrows.
Hosea 10:10-11
I will chasten them, even after mine own desire; the people shall be gathered together over them, when I punish them for their great wickedness.
Micah 1:13
The great noise of the chariots shall fear them that dwell at Lachish, which is an occasion of the sin of the daughter of Zion, for in thee came up the wickedness of Israel.