Pastor John,
Today while I was working, I had the Bible app playing, and at the end of Job (39), it talked about unicorns. I had always thought of these creatures as mythological animals. But in Job, it clearly talks about them. The question I have on this is were they real animals back then, or is “unicorn” representative of something else?
Steve
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Hi Steve.
You were listening to the King James Version. The word translated as “unicorn” in those verses is from a rare and difficult Hebrew word, and I am not sure that anyone knows what animal is being referred to. Here is how I translated Job 39:8-10: “Can you hold an aurochs in a furrow with his ropes, or harrow valleys behind him? Will you depend on him because his strength is great and leave to him your labor? Will you trust in him, that he will return your seed and gather your threshing floor?”
An aurochs is an extinct cattle species, thought by some to be the ancestor of modern cattle.
That’s the best I can do with your good question, Steve. Thanks for asking. A lot of people probably wonder about that.
Pastor John