Job - 39:12



12 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?

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Explanation and meaning of Job 39:12.

Differing Translations

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Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
Wilt thou confide in him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather the corn of thy threshingfloor?
Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it?
Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
Wilt thou rely on him, that he will bring home thy seed, And gather the corn of thy threshing-floor?
Will you have faith in him, that he will bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?
Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Wilt thou believe him? - That is, wilt thou trust him with the productions of the field? The idea is, that he was an untamed and unsubdued animal. He could not be governed, like the camel or the ox. If the sheaves of the harvest were laid on him, there would be no certainty that he would convey them where the farmer wished them.
And gather it into thy barn? - Or, rather, "to thy threshing-floor," for so the word used here (גרן gôren) means. It was not common to gather a harvest into a barn, but it was usually collected on a hard-trod place and there threshed and winnowed. For the use of the word, see Ruth 3:2; Judges 6:37; Numbers 18:30; Isaiah 21:10.

That he will bring home thy seed - Thou canst make no domestic nor agricultural use of him.

Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed?.... Draw in the cart, and bring home the ripe sheaves of corn, as the tame ox does? no; thou knowest him too well to believe he will bring it home in safety;
and gather it into thy barn; to be trodden out, which used to be done by oxen in those times: if therefore Job could not manage such unruly creatures as the wild ass and the wild ox, and make them serviceable to him, how unfit must he be to govern the world, or to direct in the affairs of Providence?

believe--trust.
seed--produce (1-Samuel 8:15).
into thy barn--rather, "gather (the contents of) thy threshing-floor" [MAURER]; the corn threshed on it.

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