John Gill Commentary Job 39:11

"Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?" — Job 39:11 (ASV)

Will you trust him, because his strength [is] great ?
&c.] No; tame oxen are employed because they are strong to labour, (Psalms 144:14); and they are to be trusted, in ploughing or treading out the corn, under direction, because they are manageable, and will attend to business with constancy; but the wild ox, though stronger, and so fitter for labour, is yet not to be trusted, because unruly and unmanageable: if that sort of wild oxen called "uri" could be thought to be meant, for which Bootius ^F8 contends,

Caesar's account of them would agree with this character of the "reem", as to his great strength: he says of them ^F9 , they are in size a little smaller than elephants, of the kind, colour, and shape of a bull; they are of great strength and of great swiftness, and not to be tamed;

or will you leave your labour to him ?
to plough your fields, to harrow your lands, and to bring home the ripe corn? as in (Job 39:12); you will not.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: Animadvers. Sacr. l. 3. c. 1. s. 14.
• F9: Comment. de Bello Gall. l. 6. c. 27.