Job 39:3

_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)] - literally, cause their young to cleave the womb and break forth. SORROWS - their young ones, the cause of their momentary pains....

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 been understood....

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 young which cause their pains. The idea seems to be, that they do this without any of the care and attention which shepherds are obliged to show to their flocks at such seasons. They do it when God only guards them; when they are in the wilderness or on the rocks far away from the abodes of man. The leading thought in all this seems to be, that the tender care of God was over his creatures, in the most perilous and delicate state, and that all this was exercised where man could have no access to them, and could not even observe them....

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 ...

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 nature made to lessen it; as thunder, before observed, which causes them to bring forth the sooner; and there is an herb called "seselis", which it is said i they feed upon before birth, to make it the easier; as well as they use that, and another called "aros", after the birth, to ease them of their later pains; THEY BRING FORTH THEIR YOUNG ONES; renting and cleaving asunder the membrane, as the word signifies, in which their young is wrapped; THEY CAST OUT THEIR SORROWS; either their young, which they bring forth in pains and which then cease; or the secundines, or afterbirth, in which the young is wrapped, and which the philosopher says k they eat, and is supposed to be medical to them. Non...

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

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 help disagreeing with the learned father of the Oratory; as the passage, according to our version, appears to me much more emphatical. Every reader of taste must discern peculiar strength and beauty in the expression, _They cast out their sorrows._ Houbigant renders the 4th verse, [_Knowest thou_] _how their young ones grow up, increase in the fields, and, once departing, return to them no more?—Whose house,_ in the 6th verse, would more properly be rendered _whose habitation;_ and the _barren land_ might be better rendered _the thicket._ The word מלחה _melechah,_ signifies a kind of _shrub;_ the _covert,_ probably, in which these animals delight. See Parkhurst on the word מלח _melach,_ 4....

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

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 His works Job must learn to trust Him and to believe in His goodness. 1-4. The wild goat or ibex....