Job 39:1 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch the does when they are in labor?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

ASV:

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

BBE:

Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

DBY:

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?

ERV:

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

JPS:

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

WBS:

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

WEB:

"Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

YLT:

Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!

Job 39:1 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 14:5 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.

1 Samuel 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

Psalm 29:9 The voice of the LORD makes the deer to calve And strips the forests bare; And in His temple everything says, "Glory!"

Psalm 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the shephanim. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

39:1-30 God inquires of Job concerning several animals. - In these questions the Lord continued to humble Job. In this chapter several animals are spoken of, whose nature or situation particularly show the power, wisdom, and manifold works of God. The wild ass. It is better to labour and be good for something, than to ramble and be good for nothing. From the untameableness of this and other creatures, we may see, how unfit we are to give law to Providence, who cannot give law even to a wild ass's colt. The unicorn, a strong, stately, proud creature. He is able to serve, but not willing; and God challenges Job to force him to it. It is a great mercy if, where God gives strength for service, he gives a heart; it is what we should pray for, and reason ourselves into, which the brutes cannot do. Those gifts are not always the most valuable that make the finest show. Who would not rather have the voice of the nightingale, than the tail of the peacock; the eye of the eagle and her soaring wing, and the natural affection of the stork, than the beautiful feathers of the ostrich, which can never rise above the earth, and is without natural affection? The description of the war-horse helps to explain the character of presumptuous sinners. Every one turneth to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle. When a man's heart is fully set in him to do evil, and he is carried on in a wicked way, by the violence of his appetites and passions, there is no making him fear the wrath of God, and the fatal consequences of sin. Secure sinners think themselves as safe in their sins as the eagle in her nest on high, in the clefts of the rocks; but I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord, #Jer 49:16". All these beautiful references to the works of nature, should teach us a right view of the riches of the wisdom of Him who made and sustains all things. The want of right views concerning the wisdom of God, which is ever present in all things, led Job to think and speak unworthily of Providence.

CONC:

Bearing Bears Birth Bring Bringing Calve Calving Canst Deer Doe Fawn Fawns Forth Giving Goats Hast Hinds Mark Mountain Observe Rock Rock-goats Roes Watch Wild

Bearing Bears Birth Calve Deer Doe Fawn Fawns Forth Goats Hinds Mark Mountain Observe Rock Roes Time Watch Wild Young

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