"Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger at night? Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness? Will it till the valleys behind you? Will you rely on it for its great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to it? Can you trust it to haul in your grain and bring it to your threshing floor?" (God speaking to Job)
Will the wild ox (aurochs, wild ancestor of domestic cattle)
Numbers 23:22 "God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox."
Deuteronomy 33:17 "In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh."
Psalm 22:21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen.
consent to serve you
Exodus 21:5-6 "But if the servant declares, 'I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,' then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life."
Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?
Job 41:13 "Who can strip off its (Leviathan's) outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor (or bridle)? (God speaking)
Psalm 32:9 Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.
(parentheses are mine)
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