Job 39:1

_KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH? OR CANST THOU MARK WHEN THE HINDS DO CALVE?_ Even wild beasts, cut off from all care of man, are cared for by God at their seasons of greatest need. Their instinct comes direct from God, and guides them to help themselves in parturition-the very time when the herdsman is most anxious for herds. WILD GOATS - ibex (Psalms 104:18; 1 Samuel 24:2). HINDS - most timid and defenseless animals, yet cared for by God....

CHAPTER XXXIX _Several animals described: the wild goats and hinds_, 1-4. _The wild ass_, 5-8. _The unicorn_, 9-12. _The peacock and ostrich_, 13-18. _The war-horse_, 19-25. _The hawk_, 26. _And the eagle and her brood_, 27-30. NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIX Verse Job 39:1. _KNOWEST THOU THE TIME_] To know _time_, c., only, was easy, and has nothing extraordinary in it but the meaning of these questions is, to know the _circumstances_, which have something peculiarly expressive of God's providence, and make the questions pro

KNOWEST THOU, THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH? - That is, the particular season when the mountain goats bring forth their young. Of domestic animals - the sheep, the tame goat, etc., the habits would be fuIly understood. But the question here relates to the animals that roamed at large on inaccessible cliffs; that were buried in deep forests; that were far from the dwellings and observation of people; and the meaning is, that there were many facts in regard to such points of Natural History which Job could not explain. God knew all their instincts and habits, and on the inaccessible cliffs, in the deep dell, in the dark forest, he was with them, and they were the objects of his care. He not only regarded the condition of the domestic animals that had been brought into the service of man, and where man perhaps might be disposed to claim that they owed much of their co...

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 a transition is made to the most remarkable of birds, the ostrich (Job 38:13). Next, the horse is described, and, as it were, depicted, in a passage of extraordinary fire and brilliancy (Job 38:19-18). Finally, a return is made to remarkable birds, and the habits of the hawk and eagle obtain mention ...

KNOWEST THOU THE TIME WHEN THE WILD GOATS OF THE ROCK BRING FORTH?.... Which creatures are so called, because they dwell among the rocks d and run upon them; and though their heads are loaded with a vast burden of horns upon them, yet can so poise themselves, as with the greatest swiftness, to leap from mountain to mountain, as Pliny says e: and if they bring forth their young in the rocks, as Olympiodorus asserts, and which is not improbable, it is not to be wondered, that the time of their bringing forth should not be known by men, to whom the rocks they run upon are inaccessible; [OR] CANST THOU MARK THE TIME WHEN THE HINDS DO CALVE? that is, precisely and exactly, and so as to direct, order, and manage, and bring it about, as the Lord does: and it is wonderful that they should calve, and not cast their young before their time, when they are continually in flight and fright, through...

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) Job 38:39. God's own wisdom and power in nature, as witnessed to by Himself, is followed by His witness as to the sustenance of His creatures, how mercifully He provides for their need. This section begins with the query, “Knowest thou?” Could he hunt the prey of the lion, or fill the ravenous appetite of their young? God considers the young, even so unclean a bird as the raven has its food provided by God. Wonderful it is to read that the young rave

KNOWEST THOU... ? Note the Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6), used by Jehovah throughout this chapter for emphasis....

_canst thou mark_ Rather, DOST thou. The goats of the rock are the mountain goats, a species of chamois....

_OF THE WILD GOATS AND HINDS; OF THE WILD ASS; THE UNICORN, THE PEACOCK, STORK, AND OSTRICH; THE HORSE, THE HAWK, AND THE EAGLE._ _Before Christ 1645._...

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 thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains. 4 Then- young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth and return not again. 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass, 6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling place? 7 He scorneth the tumult of the