Iyov 39:4

4 Their banim gain strength, they grow up in the bar (open, wild); they go forth, and return not unto them.

Iyov 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.

Iyov 39:4 In-Context

2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil, or dost thou have da’as of the et (time) when they give birth?

3 They crouch down, they bring forth their yeledim, their chavalim (birth pains) are cast off in riddance.

4 Their banim gain strength, they grow up in the bar (open, wild); they go forth, and return not unto them.

5 Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager),

6 Whose bais I have made the aravah, and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)?