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The Unbreakable Yoke
Commentators explain that God uses the familiar agricultural tasks of plowing furrows and harrowing valleys to make His point. He asks Job if he can force the powerful wild ox into the harness and yoke used for a tame ox. The obvious impossibility of this highlights the creature's untamable nature and wild freedom.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 39:10
18th Century
Theologian
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? — That is, with the common traces or cords which are employed in binding o…
John Gill
On Job 39:10
17th Century
Pastor
Can you bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ?
&c.] Put the yoke and harness upon him, and fasten it to the …
Matthew Henry
On Job 39:1–30
17th Century
Minister
In these questions, the Lord continued to humble Job. In this chapter, several animals are spoken of whose nature or situation particularly shows t…