Job 39:2 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Can you count the months they are pregnant or know the time when they'll give birth?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

ASV:

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

BBE:

Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

DBY:

Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

ERV:

Canst thou number the months that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

JPS:

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

WBS:

Canst thou number the months that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

WEB:

Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

YLT:

Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

Job 39:2 Cross References

XREF:

Job 39:1 "Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?

Job 39:3 "They kneel down, they bring forth their young, They get rid of their labor pains. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

39:2 Canst thou number the months [that] they {d} fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
(d) That is, how long they go with young?

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:

Bear Birth Bring Bringing Canst Count Fixed Forth Fulfil Fulfill Hast Months Ordered Till

Bear Birth Count Fixed Forth Fulfil Fulfill Months Ordered Time

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