{"id":13619,"date":"2023-02-01T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T18:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13619"},"modified":"2023-02-01T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T18:22:41","slug":"job-398-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13619\/job-398-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Job 39:8\u201310"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pastor John,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Today while I was working, I had the Bible app playing, and at the end of Job (39), it talked about unicorns.\u00a0\u00a0I had always thought of these\u00a0creatures as mythological animals.\u00a0 But in Job, it clearly talks about them.\u00a0 The question I have on this is were they real animals back then, or is &#8220;unicorn&#8221; representative of something else?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Steve<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Hi Steve.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>You were listening to the King James Version.\u00a0 The word translated as &#8220;unicorn&#8221; 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.\u00a0 Here is how I translated Job 39:8-10:\u00a0&#8220;Can you hold an aurochs in a furrow with his ropes, or harrow valleys behind him?\u00a0\u00a0Will you depend on him because his strength is great and leave to him your labor?\u00a0\u00a0Will you trust in him, that he will return your seed and gather your threshing floor?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>An aurochs\u00a0is an extinct cattle species, thought by some to be the ancestor of modern cattle.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><span style=\"color: #0013a3\">That&#8217;s the best I can do with your good question, Steve.\u00a0 Thanks for asking.\u00a0 A lot of people probably wonder about that.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John,\u00a0 Today while I was working, I had the Bible app playing, and at the end of Job (39), it talked about unicorns.\u00a0\u00a0I had always thought of these\u00a0creatures as mythological animals.\u00a0 But in Job, it clearly talks about them.\u00a0 The question I have on this is were they real animals back then, or is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}