Job 39:1-8

1 "Do you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you mark when the deer gives birth?

2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young?

3 They bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliver their offspring.

4 Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them.

5 "Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,

6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?

7 He scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver.

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.

Job 39:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 39

This chapter treats of various creatures, beasts and birds, which Job had little knowledge of, had no concern in the making of them, and scarcely any power over them; as of the goats and hinds, Job 39:1-4; of the wild ass, Job 39:5-8; of the unicorn, Job 39:9-12; of the peacock and ostrich, Job 39:13-18; of the horse, Job 39:19-25; and of the hawk and eagle, Job 39:26-30.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally pangs, figurative of offspring