Job 39:4

4 Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; they go forth and never return unto them again.

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 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

3 How they crouch down, they bring forth their young ones, and dismiss their pain.

4 Their young ones are healthy, they grow up with grain; they go forth and never return unto them again.

5 Who freed the wild ass, and who loosed its bands?

6 Unto whom I made a house in the wilderness, and his dwellings in the salty land.