Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 39:12
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn?
Wilt thou believe him? – That is, wilt thou trust him with the productions of the field? The idea is, that he was an untamed and unsubdued animal. He could not be governed, like the camel or the ox. If the sheaves of the harvest were laid on him, there would be no certainty that he would convey them where the farmer wished them.
And gather it into thy barn? – Or, rather, to thy threshing-floor, for so the word used here ( goren) means. It was not common to gather a harvest into a barn, but it was usually collected on a hard-trod place and there threshed and winnowed. For the use of the word, see Rth 3:2; Jdg 6:37; Num 18:30; Isa 21:10.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 12. That he will bring home thy seed] Thou canst make no domestic nor agricultural use of him.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Will bring home thy seed, Heb. will return thy seed; either,
1. By ploughing and harrowing thy land so well that it shall make a good return to thee for thy seed. Or rather,
2. By bringing into thy barn, as it follows, thy seed, i.e. the product of thy seed, or thy sheaves of corn, as this word is used, Hag 2:19.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
12. believetrust.
seedproduce (1Sa8:15).
into thy barnrather,”gather (the contents of) thy threshing-floor” [MAURER];the corn threshed on it.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Wilt thou believe him that he will bring home thy seed?…. Draw in the cart, and bring home the ripe sheaves of corn, as the tame ox does? no; thou knowest him too well to believe he will bring it home in safety;
and gather [it into] thy barn; to be trodden out, which used to be done by oxen in those times: if therefore Job could not manage such unruly creatures as the wild ass and the wild ox, and make them serviceable to him, how unfit must he be to govern the world, or to direct in the affairs of Providence?
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(12) Wilt thou believe him?i.e., trust him, as in the former verse Wilt thou [trust was, rather, Wilt thou feel confidence in him?
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
12. Thy barn Better, threshing floor.
(12) Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? (13) Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? (14) Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, (15) And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. (16) She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; (17) Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. (18) What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
From beasts, now the LORD sends Job for instruction to birds, and instanceth in the ostrich plume, and the peacock’s wings and feathers, that how improvident soever these creatures are, yet their Maker’s care of them never remits. In the carelessness of the ostrich, leaving her eggs in the sand, exposed to many dangers, and yet her race is preserved, how graciously doth the LORD teach, that his mercy and providence is called forth to make up all the deficiencies of the several creatures, which are what they are by his ordination and appointment. But is there not an higher lesson intended here. Are not sinners, like the unthinking ostrich, who leave their grand concerns, like the eggs of this bird in the sand, to peradventures, and live regardless of all consequences? Reader, how many, who are all alive to observe the folly of this bird, are yet foolish in a matter of infinitely higher moment, and neglect the one thing needful, the care of their immortal souls!
Job 39:12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn?
Ver. 12. Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed ] That is, the crop that comes of thy seed; as in the former verse, thy labour, that is, the fruit of thy labour, as Psa 128:2 . There is no trusting to this wild and fierce creature to do any such thing. Vertoman saith, that he saw two unicorns, and that they were not of so fierce a nature but that they might be brought to somewhat. But then they were not true unicorns, say we; such as God here describeth.
And gather it into thy barn? he: Neh 13:15, Amo 2:13
gather: Pro 3:16, Hag 2:19, Mat 3:2, Mat 13:30
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge