Job 39:1

Translations

Modern

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

Traditional

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Literal

“ Do you know the time of the bearing of the goats of the rock? Can you observe the twisting of the does?

Latin

Numquid nosti tempus partus ibicum in petris, vel parturientes cervas observasti?

Original

Hebrew

English

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

Notes

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Psalm 29:9
The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
1 Samuel 24:2
So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
Psalm 104:18
The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
Jeremiah 14:5
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Deuteronomy 14:5
…the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Glossary

Book of Job Deer Goat Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Animals: Habits of Animals: Homes of Animals: Instincts of Animals: Nature of Beasts: Clean: Hart Condescension of God: Reasons with Job God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job: A Man Who Lived in Uz: Replied to by God Rocks: Inhabited by Wild Goats Select Readings: The Animals of the Field The Goat: when Wild Dwelt in the Hills and Rocks The Hart: Female of Brings Forth at Appointed Time

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