Job 39:1
“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:2So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
Psalms 104:18The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
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 →