Job 39:4

4 Their calves be separated from them, and go forth to pasture; they go out, and they turn not again to their mothers.

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 Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, and hast thou known the time of their calving?

3 They be bowed down to [the] calf, and so calve; and they send out then roarings (and then they send out their roarings).

4 Their calves be separated from them, and go forth to pasture; they go out, and they turn not again to their mothers.

5 Who hath let go the wild ass free, and who hath loosed the bonds of him? (Who hath let the wild donkey go free, and who hath loosened his bonds?)

6 To whom I have given an house in (the) wilderness, and the tabernacles of him in the land of saltness. (To whom I have given a home in the desert, and his dwelling places in the salty land.)