Job 39:2

Do you know how many months pass from the time they become pregnant until their fawns are born?

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

In Context

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?

3When they give birth, they crouch down so that the fawns do not get hurt by falling to the ground when they are born.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 2:24You are like wild female donkeys in the desert. They sniff the air to find where the male donkeys are, and no one can [RHQ] restrain them. The male donkeys that want them do not become tired searching for them, because at mating time they find them easily.

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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