Job 39:4

4 Their young ones grow big and strong in the wild country. Then they leave their homes and do not 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 Do you count the months until they give birth and know the right time for them to give birth?

3 They lie down, their young are born, and then the pain of giving birth is over.

4 Their young ones grow big and strong in the wild country. Then they leave their homes and do not return.

5 "Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?

6 I am the one who gave the donkey the desert as its home; I gave it the desert lands as a place to live.