Job 39:1
“Do you know when the wild goats give birth? Have you watched the birth-pains of the deer?
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In Context
2Do you know how many months they carry their young? Do you know the time when they give birth?
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:2So Saul took three thousand specially-picked men from all Israel and went searching for David and his men in the area around Wild Goats' Rocks.
Psalms 104:18Wild goats live high in the mountains; hyraxes hide among the rocks.
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 →