Job 39:2

Can you count the months that they gestate? 1 Do you know the time when they bear their young? 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Do you know at what time the wild goats in the rocks bear their young? 1 Can you watch when the deer are having their fawns? 1

3They crouch down and birth their young, 1 and then they finish their labor pains. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! 1 Who can restrain her lust? None of the males need wear themselves out pursuing her; at mating time they will find her. 1

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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