Job 39:1

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

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Cross References

1 Samuel 24:2And when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, they told him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi.

Psalms 104:18The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the irchins.

Matthew Henry on Job 39:1

God proceeds here to show Job what little reason he had to charge him with unkindness who was so compassionate to the inferior creatures and took such a tender care of them, or to boast of himself, and his own good deeds before God, which were nothing to the divine mercies. He shows him also what great reason he had to be humble who knew so little of the nature of the creatures about him and had so little influence upon them, and to submit to that God on whom they all depend. He discourses particularly, I.… Read the whole commentary →

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