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Brenton's Septuagint

Job 39:3

and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hart, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hart;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knowledge;   Nature;   World;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They crouch down to give birth to their young;they deliver their newborn.
Hebrew Names Version
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains.
King James Version
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
English Standard Version
when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
New Century Version
They lie down, their young are born, and then the pain of giving birth is over.
New English Translation
They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.
Amplified Bible
"They kneel down, they bring forth their young, They cast out their labor pains.
New American Standard Bible
"They kneel down, they deliver their young, They get rid of their labor pains.
World English Bible
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes.
Legacy Standard Bible
They kneel down; they bring forth their young;They send out their labor pains.
Berean Standard Bible
They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
Contemporary English Version
before they deliver?
Complete Jewish Bible
when they crouch down and bring forth their young, when they deliver their fawns?
Darby Translation
They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
Easy-to-Read Version
These animals lie down, they feel their birth pains, and their babies are born.
George Lamsa Translation
And do you know when they kneel and bring forth their young ones?
Good News Translation
Do you know when they will crouch down and bring their young into the world?
Lexham English Bible
When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains.
Literal Translation
when they crouch and bring forth; they send out their pangs?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Or when they lye downe, when they cast their yonge ones, & when they are delyuered off their trauayle & payne?
American Standard Version
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.
Bible in Basic English
They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they cast out their fruit.
King James Version (1611)
They bowe themselues, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrowes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They lye downe, they calue their young ones, and they are deliuered of their trauaile and paine:
English Revised Version
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they cast out their sorrows.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tho ben bowid to the calf, and caluen; and senden out roryngis.
Update Bible Version
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.
Webster's Bible Translation
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
New King James Version
They bow down,They bring forth their young,They deliver their offspring. [fn]
New Living Translation
They crouch down to give birth to their young and deliver their offspring.
New Life Bible
They get down and give birth to their young, and get rid of their pains.
New Revised Standard
when they crouch to give birth to their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They kneel down, their young, they bring forth; their pains, they throw off;
Douay-Rheims Bible
They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.
Revised Standard Version
when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?
Young's Literal Translation
They bow down, Their young ones they bring forth safely, Their pangs they cast forth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They kneel down, they bring forth their young, They get rid of their labor pains.

Contextual Overview

1 Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds: 2 and if thou has hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and if thou hast relieved their pangs: 3 and hast reared their young without fear; and wilt thou loosen their pangs? 4 Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them. 5 And who is he that sent forth the wild ass free? and who loosed his bands? 6 whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts. 7 He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer. 8 He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing. 9 And will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or to lie down at thy manger? 10 And wilt thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plough furrows for thee in the plain?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech spoke, and Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, to Abraam, saying, God is with thee in all things, whatsoever thou mayest do.
Genesis 26:24
And the Lord appeared to him in that night, and said, I am the God of Abraam thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for the sake of Abraam thy father.
Genesis 26:28
And they said, We have surely seen that the Lord was with thee, and we said, Let there be an oath between us and thee, and we will make a covenant with thee,
Genesis 30:27
And Laban said to him, If I have found grace in thy sight, I would augur well, for the Lord has blessed me at thy coming in.
Genesis 30:30
For it was little thou hadst before my time, and it is increased to a multitude, and the Lord God has blessed thee since my coming; now then, when shall I set up also my own house?
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, Lie with me.
Genesis 39:8
But he would not; but said to his master’s wife, If because of me my master knows nothing in his house, and has given into my hands all things that belong to him:
Genesis 39:15
And when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, having left his clothes with me, he fled, and went forth out.
Genesis 39:16
So she leaves the clothes by her, until the master came to his house.
Genesis 39:23
Because of him the chief keeper of the prison knew nothing, for all things were in the hand of Joseph, because the Lord was with him; and whatever things he did, the Lord made them to prosper in his hands.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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. None but a woman seems to bring forth with more pain than this creature; and a wife is compared to it, Proverbs 5:19.

i Cicero de Natura Deoram, l. 2. Plin. Nat. Hist. c. 8. 32. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 5. k Aristot. ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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