Job 39:1
“ Job, do you know at what time/season of the year the female mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the wild deer while their fawns were being born?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
2Do you know how many months pass from the time they become pregnant until their fawns are born?
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:2When Saul heard that, he chose 3,000 men from various areas in Israel, and they went to search for David and his men at a place named Rocks of Wild Goats.
Psalms 104:18High up in the mountains the wild goats live, and hyraxes/badgers live in the crags/crevices in 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 →