Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
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?
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 He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing. 9 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store? 10 Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Numbers 23:22
It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.
Deuteronomy 33:17
He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.
Psalm 22:21
Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
Isaiah 1:3
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.