Job 39:4

4 "Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them.

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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 39:4 In-Context

2 "Can you count the months they fulfill, Or do you know the time they give birth?
3 "They kneel down, they bring forth their young, They get rid of their labor pains.
4 "Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them.
5 "Who sent out the wild donkey free? And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
6 To whom I gave the wilderness for a home And the salt land for his dwelling place?
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