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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Job 39:9

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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39:9-12 Now extinct and already rare by Moses’ time, the wild ox was the most powerful land animal in early Canaan. This Old Testament symbol of strength (Num 23:22; 24:8; Deut 33:17; Pss 29:6; 92:10) was never tamed (cp. Gen 1:28; 9:2; Ps 8:5-6).
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