Job 39:1
“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
In Context
2Can you count the months that they fulfil? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
Psalms 104:18The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are 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 →