the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Job 39:4
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Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field.They leave and do not return.
Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.
Their young ones grow big and strong in the wild country. Then they leave their homes and do not return.
Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.
"Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them.
"Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them.
Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go forth, and don't return again.
Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
Their children become strong; they grow up in the open field;They leave and do not return to them.
Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.
Soon their young grow strong and then leave to be on their own.
Their young become strong, growing up in the open; they leave and never return.
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
Their babies grow strong out in the wild. Then they leave their mothers and never come back.
They bring up their young ones, until they grow up and are weaned.
In the wilds their young grow strong; they go away and don't come back.
Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.
Their sons are strong; they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them.
How their yoge ones growe vp & waxe greate thorow good fedinge?
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.
Their young ones wax strong, they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not again.
Their yong ones are in good liking, they grow vp with corne: they go forth, and returne not vnto them.
Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them.
Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not again,
Her calues ben departid, and goen to pasture; tho goen out, and turnen not ayen to `tho hyndis.
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and don't return again.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not to them.
Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them.
Their young grow up in the open fields, then leave home and never return.
Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return to them.
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
Their young become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go out, and return not unto them.
Their young are weaned and go to feed: they go forth, and return not to them.
Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth, and do not return to them.
Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.
"Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:30 - General
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And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:
See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;
And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.
And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.
And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.
And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.
And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.
But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Their young ones are in good liking,.... Plump, fat, and sleek, as fawns are:
they grow up with corn; by which they grow, or without in the field, as the word also signifies; and their growth and increase is very quick, as Aristotle observes l;
they go forth, and return not unto them: they go forth into the fields, and shift and provide for themselves, and trouble their dams no more; and return not to them, nor are they known by them.
l Ib. (Aristot. Hist. Animal.) l. 6. c. 29.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Their young ones are in good liking - Hebrew “they are fat;” and hence, it means that they are strong and robust.
They grow up with corn - Herder, Gesenius, Noyes, Umbreit, and Rosenmuller render this, “in the wilderness,” or “field.” The proper and usual meaning of the word used here (בר bâr) is corn (grain); but in Chaldee it has the sense of open fields, or country. The same idea is found in the Arabic, and this sense seems to be required by the connection. The idea is not that they are nurtured with grain, which would require the care of man, but that they are nurtured under the direct eye of God far away from human dwellings, and even when they go away from their dam and return no more to the place of their birth. This is one of the instances, therefore, in which the connection seems to require us to adopt a signification that does not elsewhere occur in the Hebrew, but which is found in the cognate languages.
They go forth, and return not unto them - God guards and preserves them, even when they wander away from their dam, and are left helpless. Many of the young of animals require long attention from man, many are kept for a considerable period by the side of the mother, but the idea here seems to be, that the young of the wild goat and of the fawn are thrown early on the providence of God, and are protected by him alone. The particular care of Providence over these animals seems to be specified because there are no others that are exposed to so many dangers in their early life. “Every creature then is a formidable enemy. The eagle, the falcon, the osprey, the wolf, the dog, and all the rapacious animals of the cat kind, are in continual employment to find out their retreat. But what is more unnatural still, the stag himself is a professed enemy, and she, the hind, is obliged to use all her arts to conceal her young from him, as from the most dangerous of her pursuers.” “Goldsmith’s Nat. His.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 39:4. In good liking — After the fawns have sucked for some time, the dam leads them to the pastures, where they feed on different kinds of herbage; but not on corn, for they are not born before harvest-time in Arabia and Palestine, and the stag does not feed on corn, but on grass, moss, and the shoots of the fir, beech, and other trees: therefore the word bar, here translated corn, should be translated the open field or country. See Parkhurst. Their nurslings bound away. - Mr. Good. In a short time they become independent of the mother, leave her, and return no more. The spirit of the questions in these verses appears to be the following: - Understandest thou the cause of breeding of the mountain goats, &c.? Art thou acquainted with the course and progress of the parturition, and the manner in which the bones grow, and acquire solidity in the womb? See Mr. Good's observations.
Houbigant's version appears very correct: (Knowest thou) "how their young ones grow up, increase in the fields, and once departing, return to them no more?"
