Job 39:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Job 39:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:24
A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

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Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Lord Majesty Theology Trinity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

God here shows Job what little acquaintance he had with the untamed creatures that run wild in the deserts and live at large, but are the care of the divine Providence. As, I. The wild goats and the hinds. That which is taken notice of concerning them is the bringing forth and bringing up of their young ones. For, as every individual is fed, so every species of animals is preserved, by the care of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. They bring forth with ease and do not need to reckon the months of pregnancy, as the shepherd does in the case of his flocks.