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Bishop's Bible

Job 21:10

Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Rich, the;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Desire;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Calf, the;   Ox, the;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom literature;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pashur;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Heifer;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hid;   Root;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gender;   Job, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ox;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their bulls breed without fail;their cows calve and do not miscarry.
Hebrew Names Version
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
King James Version
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
English Standard Version
Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.
New Century Version
Their bulls never fail to mate; their cows have healthy calves.
New English Translation
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
Amplified Bible
"His bull breeds and does not fail; His cow calves and does not miscarry.
New American Standard Bible
"His ox mates without fail; His cow calves and does not miscarry.
World English Bible
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
Legacy Standard Bible
His ox mates and does not fail;His cow calves and does not miscarry.
Berean Standard Bible
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
Contemporary English Version
Their cattle have lots of calves without ever losing one;
Complete Jewish Bible
Their bulls are fertile without fail, their cows get pregnant and don't miscarry.
Darby Translation
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Easy-to-Read Version
Their bulls never fail to mate. Their cows have healthy calves.
George Lamsa Translation
Their bull breeds, and fails not; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
Good News Translation
Yes, all their cattle breed and give birth without trouble.
Lexham English Bible
His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry.
Literal Translation
His bull passes semen and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their bullocke gendreth, and that not out of tyme: their cow calueth, and is not vnfrutefull.
American Standard Version
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Bible in Basic English
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
King James Version (1611)
Their bull gendreth and faileth not, their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
English Revised Version
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The cow of hem conseyuede, and caluede not a deed calf; the cow caluyde, and is not priued of hir calf.
Update Bible Version
Their bull genders, and does not fail; Their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
Webster's Bible Translation
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
New King James Version
Their bull breeds without failure; Their cow calves without miscarriage.
New Living Translation
Their bulls never fail to breed. Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.
New Life Bible
Their bull mates without trouble. Their cow gives birth to live calves.
New Revised Standard
Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and never miscarries.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
Revised Standard Version
Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
Young's Literal Translation
His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"His ox mates without fail; His cow calves and does not abort.

Contextual Overview

7 Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse? 8 Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. 10 Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull. 11 They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes [leade the] daunce. 12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs. 13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue. 14 They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. 15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him? 16 Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande, therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

their cow: Exodus 23:26, Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 7:14, Deuteronomy 28:11, Psalms 144:13, Psalms 144:14, Ecclesiastes 9:1, Ecclesiastes 9:2, Luke 12:16-21, Luke 16:19

Reciprocal: Job 22:17 - Depart Hosea 9:14 - a miscarrying womb

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
Genesis 17:21
But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.
Genesis 20:11
Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.
Genesis 21:6
But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.
Genesis 21:7
She sayd also: who would haue sayde vnto Abraham, that Sara shoulde haue geuen chyldren sucke? for I haue borne [him] a sonne in his olde age.
Genesis 21:11
And this saying was very greeuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.
Genesis 21:12
And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called.
Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretchyng foorth his hande, toke the knyfe to haue killed his sonne.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not,.... As the wicked man's prosperity is described before by the increase and comfortable settlement of his children and grandchildren, and by the peace and safety of all within doors; here it is further set forth by the increase of his cattle in the fields, one part being put for the whole, his oxen and asses, his camels and sheep, things in which the riches of men chiefly lay in those times and countries; and he was reckoned an happy man when these brought forth abundantly; see Psalms 144:13;

their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf; both male and female succeed in propagating their species, and so in increasing the wealth of their owner; this is sometimes promised as a temporal blessing,

Exodus 23:26.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their bull gendereth - See Rosenmuller and Lee on this verse; comp Bochart, Hieroz. P. 1, Lib. ii. c. xxx. The general idea is, that the wicked were prospered as well as the pious. God did not interpose by a miracle to cut off their cattle, and to prevent their becoming rich.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 21:10. Their bull gendereth — עבר ibbar, passes over, i.e., on the cow, referring to the actions of the bull when coupling with the female. Their flocks multiply greatly, they bring forth in time, and none of them is barren.


 
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