Job 39:5
\39:2\Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
In Context
4\39:1\Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
6\39:3\They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
Job 6:5Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?
Job 24:5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
Psalms 104:11They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.
Jeremiah 2:24An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
Daniel 5:21And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:2-13
Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5… Read the whole commentary →