Job 39:11
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?.... No; tame oxen are employed because they are strong to labour,
Ps 144:14; and they are to be trusted, in ploughing or treading out the corn, under direction, because they are manageable, and will attend to business with constancy; but the wild ox, though stronger, and so fitter for labour, is yet not to be trusted, because unruly and unmanageable: if that sort of wild oxen called "uri" could be thought to be meant, for which Bootius {h} contends, Caesar's account of them would agree with this character of the "reem", as to his great strength: he says of them {i}, they are in size a little smaller than elephants, of the kind, colour, and shape of a bull; they are of great strength and of great swiftness, and not to be tamed;
or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? to plough thy fields, to harrow thy lands, and to bring home the ripe corn? as in Job 39:12; thou wilt not.
{h} Animadvers. Sacr. l. 3. c. 1. s. 14.
{i} Comment. de Bello Gall. l. 6. c. 27.