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Job 39:3
They bow themselves, Cf 1 Samuel 4:19, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows, shaking off the pains of birth with its fruit, all under the influence of God's providential care.
They bow themselves, Cf 1 Samuel 4:19, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows, shaking off the pains of birth with its fruit, all under the influence of God's providential care.
Verse Job 39:3. _THEY BOW THEMSELVES_] In order to bring forth their young ones. _THEY CAST OUT THEIR SORROWS._] חבליהם _chebleyhem_; the _placenta,_ _afterbirth_, or umbilical cord. So this word has...
THEY BOW THEMSELVES - literally, they curve or bend themselves; that is, they draw their limbs together. THEY CAST OUT THEIR SORROWS - That is, they cast forth the offspring of their pains, or the you...
CHAPTER S 38:39--39:30 _ 1. The beasts of prey (Job 38:39)_ 2. The wild goats, the ass, the unicorn and the ostrich (Job 39:1) 3. The horse, the hawk and the eagle (Job 39:19)...
_cast out their sorrows_ That is, their _pains_; with the birth of their young they are rid of their pains also. Or "their pains" may mean "their young," by a figure common in all poetry....
Job 38:39 Ch. Job 39:30. The manifoldness of the Divine Mind as displayed in the world of animal life The instances chosen are the lion and the raven (Job 38:39); the wild goats and the hinds (ch....
Job 39:1-4. The goats of the rock and the hinds....
THEY BOW THEMSELVES— The manuscripts mark the two last verbs with a circle. Houbigant's version runs thus: _They bow themselves; they burst with their pains; they cast forth their young._ But I cannot...
2. And of the animal world (Job 39:1, Job 40:2) TEXT 39:1-30 to Job 40:2 39 KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH? _Or_ canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst...
_THEY BOW THEMSELVES, THEY BRING FORTH THEIR YOUNG ONES, THEY CAST OUT THEIR SORROWS._ Bow themselves - in parturition: bend on their knees (1 Samuel 4:19). BRING FORTH, х_ PAALACH_ (H6398)] - liter...
THEIR SORROWS] their young, whose birth causes pain....
THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (CONCLUDED) Chs. Job 38:39 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. In view of...
Wild goats are shy animals. They live in the mountains. They stay far away from people. The young goats are not loyal to their mothers. When the young goats are old enough, they leave their mothers. A...
The animals in these verses are called goats, donkeys and oxen. (Oxen is the plural of ox.) These animals are common animals on the farms in many countries. On the farm, these are tame animals. But Go...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 39 GOD SPEAKS ABOUT BIRDS A...
תִּ֭כְרַעְנָה יַלְדֵיהֶ֣ן תְּפַלַּ֑חְנָה חֶבְלֵיהֶ֥ם תְּשַׁלַּֽחְנָה׃...
XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submis...
“KNOWEST THOU?” “CANST THOU?” Job 39:1 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1; the wild ass, Job 39:5...
And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameabl...
They bow themselves, they (e) bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. (e) They bring forth with great difficulty....
_Roarings. They pretend that these animals bring forth with great difficulty, Psalm xxviii. 9. (Vatable, &c.) --- Aristotle (v. 2., and vi. 29.) asserts, that they receive the male bending down, as He...
(1) В¶ 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 t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...
THEY BOW THEMSELVES,.... That they may bring forth their young with greater ease and more safety: for it seems the hinds bring forth their young with great difficulty; and there are provisions in natu...
_They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows._ Ver. 3. _They bow themselves_] _sc._ By an instinct of nature, whether it be the pain they suffer, which compell...
_They bow themselves_ Being taught by a divine instinct to put themselves into such a posture as may be most fit for their safe and easy bringing forth. _They bring forth their young ones_ Hebrew, תפל...
THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did Job...
THEY BOW THEMSELVES; being taught by a Divine instinct to dispose themselves in such a posture as may be fittest for their safe and easy bringing forth. THEY BRING FORTH THEIR YOUNG ONES, to wit, with...
Job 39:3 bow H3766 (H8799) forth H6398 (H8762) young H3206 deliver H7971 (H8762) offspring H2256...
CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: When we consider God's wonderful works in all nature about us, and see how wonderfully even the brute creatures are fitt...
Job 39:1. _The wild goat,_ on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws of...
_Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth?_ THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY A RELIGIOUS DUTY God is here represented as calling the attention of Job to various orders of animal life. R...
NOTES Job 39:13. “_Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich?_” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rendered....
EXPOSITION JOB 39:1 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39. The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (Job 38:1); then...
Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? can you mark when the hinds calve? Can you number the months that they fulfil? [Do you know how long their pregnancies are?] or do you...
1 Chronicles 16:18; 2 Kings 4:39; 2 Samuel 22:6; Genesis 4:23;...