Holy Scripture

Job 39:11

A church father on this verse
“Wilt thou have confidence in his great strength, and wilt thou leave to him thy labours? 8. The Lord asserts that He has confidence in the strength of the rhinoceros; because He inclined the powers, which He had conferred for a temporal purpose on an earthly prince, to minister to His reverence, in order that by the p…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXXI

Source: Septuagint

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11And dost thou trust him, because his strength is great? And wilt thou commit thy works to him?

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9And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or to lie down at thy manger?

10And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, Or will he plow furrows for thee in the plain?

— Job 39:11 —

12And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, And bring it in to thy threshing floor?

13The peacock has a beautiful wing: If the stork and the ostrich conceive, it is worthy of notice,

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