Job 39:1-6

1 "Do you know [the] time when [the] goats of [the] rocks give birth? Do you observe [the] doe deer's giving birth?

2 Can you number [the] months they fulfill, and do you know [the] time of its giving birth?

3 When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains.

4 Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.

5 "Who has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,

6 [to] which I have given [the] wilderness [as] its house and [the] salt flat [as] its dwelling place?

Job 39:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 39

This chapter treats of various creatures, beasts and birds, which Job had little knowledge of, had no concern in the making of them, and scarcely any power over them; as of the goats and hinds, Job 39:1-4; of the wild ass, Job 39:5-8; of the unicorn, Job 39:9-12; of the peacock and ostrich, Job 39:13-18; of the horse, Job 39:19-25; and of the hawk and eagle, Job 39:26-30.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "deliver their fetuses"