Job 39:6
They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
In Context
5Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
7Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23(For all that land shall burne with brimstone and salt: it shall not be sowen, nor bring forth, nor any grasse shall growe therein, like as in the ouerthrowing of Sodom, and Gomorah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord ouerthrewe in his wrath and in his anger)
Psalms 107:34And a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 17:6For he shall be like the heath in the wildernesse, and shall not see when any good commeth, but shall inhabite the parched places in the wildernesse, in a salt land, and not inhabited.
Hosea 8:9For they are gone vp to Asshur: they are as a wilde asse alone by himselfe: Ephraim hath hired louers.
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 →