Job 39:4

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

Ver. 4. Their young ones are in good liking] Or, they recover; revalescent begin to grow well, as Isaiah 58:14, notwithstanding the hardness of their birth, by reason of their dam's exceeding dry temperature, Psalms 42:1. As the hind brayeth after the water brooks, as being naturally hot and dry, when in pain especially; and this the young are sensible of in their coming into the world, which yet they soon recover and grow sleek and fat, η ελαφος (Sept.). Let God be trusted for the welfare of our children, though weak and wearish when newly born, and hard put to it in the birth.

They grow up with corn] Or, in the field; after that they have been nourished a while with their dam's milk, they forage for themselves; being calved about autumn, as Aristotle noteth, that is, in seed time; others say, about harvest, when grain is in the field, and God's great barn door open, as the proverb is. This is here brought as an argument for the Divine providence.

They go forth, and return not unto them] That is, to their dams; as finding food enough abroad. Thus other creatures, as soon as they are born almost, can shift for themselves; only poor shiftless man is long ere he can do anything, or comes to any proof, to be able to provide for himself.