Job 39:4

4 Their young are healthy; they grow up in the open country, leave and never return.

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 Can you count the months of pregnancy; do you know when they give birth?

3 They crouch, split open for their young, send forth their offspring.

4 Their young are healthy; they grow up in the open country, leave and never return.

5 Who freed the wild donkey, loosed the ropes of the onager

6 to whom I gave the desert as home, his dwelling place in the salt flats?