Job 39:1
Knowest thou the season when the Wild Goats of the crags beget? The bringing forth of the hinds, canst thou observe?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2Canst thou count the months they fulfil? Or knowest thou 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, over the face of the rocks of the mountain-goats.
Psalms 104:18The high mountains, are for the chamois, The crags, are a refuge for the conies.
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 →