Job 39:6

\39:3\They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

In Context

5\39:2\Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

7\39:4\Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:23And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

Psalms 107:34He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Jeremiah 17:6For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

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 →

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