Job 39:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

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  • Neh 13:15 : 15 In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
  • Amos 2:13 : 13 See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.
  • Hag 2:19 : 19 Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
  • Matt 3:2 : 2 Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.
  • Matt 13:30 : 30 Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

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  • Job 39:9-11
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    9To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

    10He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;

    11He goes looking for his grass-lands in the mountains, searching out every green thing.

  • Job 39:13-15
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    78%

    13Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?

    14Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?

    15Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

  • 23And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • 38You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

  • Job 41:3-5
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    3I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

    4Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

    5Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.

  • 6Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.

  • Job 39:1-2
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    1Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

    2When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

  • 8If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the flock had banded young.

  • 12The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

  • 18And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

  • 11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • Isa 28:24-25
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    24Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

    25When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?

  • 23Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

  • 8She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.

  • 5Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;

  • Job 39:26-27
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    68%

    26The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.

    27Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

  • 15He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.

  • 4Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

  • 5And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • 7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • Job 39:19-20
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    19She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

    20For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

  • 10Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

  • 25Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

  • 9If men came to get your grapes, would they not let some be uncut on the vines? if thieves came by night, would they not make waste till they had enough?

  • 37And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • 6In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

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    28And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?

    29But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.

  • 15And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

  • 19Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

  • 25You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.

  • 20So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • 17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • 26See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

  • 14How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

  • 16And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

  • 5If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

  • 28Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.

  • 22Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,