Job 39:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?”
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“Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? Or wilt thou leave to him thy labor?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Dost thou trust in him because great <FI>is<Fi> his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 39:11 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Genesis 9:2The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.
- Genesis 42:26and they loaded the grain on their donkeys and departed.
- Numbers 23:22God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
- Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
- Psalms 33:16No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
- Psalms 144:14Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.
- Psalms 147:10He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.
- Proverbs 14:4Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.
- Isaiah 30:6This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
- Isaiah 30:16“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
- Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
- Isaiah 46:1Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
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