Job 39:4

4 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

Job 39:4 Meaning and Commentary

Job 39:4

Their young ones are in good liking
Plump, fat, and sleek, as fawns are:

they grow up with corn;
by which they grow, or without in the field, as the word also signifies; and their growth and increase is very quick, as Aristotle observes ^F12;

they go forth, and return not unto them:
they go forth into the fields, and shift and provide for themselves, and trouble their dams no more; and return not to them, nor are they known by them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Ib. (Aristot. Hist. Animal.) l. 6. c. 29.

Job 39:4 In-Context

2 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

3 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

4 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

5 Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

6 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.