Job 39:1
What does Job 39:1 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 39:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
Context
v.1This passage
v.2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 24:2
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
- Psalms 104:18
The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.
- Jeremiah 14:5
Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass.
- Psalms 29:9
The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, And strippeth the forests bare: And in his temple everything saith, Glory.
- Deuteronomy 14:5
the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the chamois.
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