Job 39:4

The young fawns grow up in the open fields, and then they leave their mothers and do not return to them again.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

In Context

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

5“Who allows the wild donkeys to go wherever they want [DOU]?

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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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