Job 39:4

4 Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return.^[a]

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 they are pregnant so you can know the time they give birth?

3 They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn.

4 Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return.

5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its harness?

6 I made the wilderness its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

Footnotes

• [a] Lit return to them