Job 39:1
“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
2 Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
3 They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
- KJV
- Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
- WEB
- “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
- ASV
- Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [Or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
- DARBY
- Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
- BLB
- [“] Do you know the time of the bearing of the goats of the rock? Can you observe the twisting of the does?
- ÅB
- Kjenner du tiden når stengeitene føder, og gir du akt på hindenes veer?
- OTB
- «Vet du når fjellgeitene føder?
Ser du på når hjortene får sine unger? - B1930
- Kjenner du tiden når stengjetene føder, og gir du akt på hindenes veer?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 29:9
The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
Read in contextPsalms 104:18
The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
Read in context1 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 14:5
the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:5
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Read in context