Job 39:11

“Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? etc.] No; tame oxen are employed because they are strong to labour, (<19E414>Psalm 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 f1373 contends, Caesar’s account of them would agree with this character of the “reem”, as to his great strength: he says of them f1374, they are in size a little smaller than elephants, of…”

“thy labour--rustic work.”

“Wilt thou trust him? - As thou dost the ox. In the domestic animals great confidence is of necessity placed, and the reliance on the fidelity of the ox and the horse is not usually misplaced. The idea here is, that the unicorn could not be so tamed that important interests could be safely entrusted to him. Because his strength is great? - Wilt thou consider his strength as a reason why important interests might be entrusted to him? The strength of the ox, the camel, the horse, and the elephant was a reason why their aid was sought by man to do what he could not himself do. The idea is, that man could not make use of the same reason for employing the rhinoceros. Wilt thou leave thy labour to…”

“trust: Psa 20:7, Psa 33:16, Psa 33:17, Psa 147:10; Isa 30:16, Isa 31:1-3 leave: Gen 1:26, Gen 1:28, Gen 9:2, Gen 42:26; Psa 144:14; Pro 14:4; Isa 30:6, Isa 46:1 Job 39:12”