Job 39:4

4 Their young ones are sturdy; they grow up with corn; they go forth and return not unto 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 Canst thou number the months that they fulfill? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones; they cast out their sorrows.
4 Their young ones are sturdy; they grow up with corn; they go forth and return not unto them.
5 "Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass,
6 whose house I have made the wilderness and the barren land his dwellings?
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