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Job 39:2

Do you know how many months they must carry their babies? Do you know when it is the right time for them to be born?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bring;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Can you count the months they are pregnantso you can know the time they give birth?
Hebrew Names Version
Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
King James Version
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
English Standard Version
Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
New Century Version
Do you count the months until they give birth and know the right time for them to give birth?
New English Translation
Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?
Amplified Bible
"Can you count the months that they carry offspring, Or do you know the time when they give birth?
New American Standard Bible
"Can you count the months they fulfill, Or do you know the time they give birth?
World English Bible
Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
Legacy Standard Bible
Can you count the months they fulfill,Or do you know the time they give birth?
Berean Standard Bible
Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
Contemporary English Version
How long are they pregnant
Complete Jewish Bible
Can you tell how many months they carry their young? Do you know when they give birth,
Darby Translation
Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
George Lamsa Translation
Can you number the months that they fulfill, and know the time when they bring forth?
Good News Translation
Do you know how long they carry their young? Do you know the time for their birth?
Lexham English Bible
Can you number the months they fulfill, and do you know the time of its giving birth?
Literal Translation
Can you tell the months they fulfill; or do you know the time for their bearing,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Rekenest thou the monethes after they ingendre, yt thou knowest the tyme of their bearinge?
American Standard Version
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Bible in Basic English
Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
King James Version (1611)
Canst thou number the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Canst thou number the monethes that they go with young? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and if thou has hast numbered the full months of their being with young, and if thou hast relieved their pangs:
English Revised Version
Canst thou number the months that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hast thou noumbrid the monethis of her conseyuyng, and hast thou knowe the tyme of her caluyng?
Update Bible Version
Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bring forth?
Webster's Bible Translation
Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
New King James Version
Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear young?
New Living Translation
Do you know how many months they carry their young? Are you aware of the time of their delivery?
New Life Bible
Can you number the months that they carry their young? Or do you know the time when their young are born?
New Revised Standard
Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Canst thou count the months they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they give birth?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Revised Standard Version
Can you number the months that they fulfil, and do you know the time when they bring forth,
Young's Literal Translation
Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Can you count the months they fulfill, Or do you know the time they give birth?

Contextual Overview

1 "Do you know when the mountain goats are born? Do you watch when the mother deer gives birth? 2 Do you know how many months they must carry their babies? Do you know when it is the right time for them to be born? 3 These animals lie down, they feel their birth pains, and their babies are born. 4 Their babies grow strong out in the wild. Then they leave their mothers and never come back. 5 "Who let the wild donkeys go free? Who untied their ropes and let them loose? 6 I let the wild donkey have the desert for a home. I gave the salt lands to them for a place to live. 7 They are happy to be away from the noise of the city. They never have to listen to their drivers shouting at them. 8 They live in the mountains. That is their pasture. That is where they look for food to eat. 9 "Will a wild bull agree to serve you? Will he stay in your barn at night? 10 Will he let you put ropes on him to plow your fields?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:24

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
Then Abimelech and Phicol spoke with Abraham. Phicol was the commander of Abimelech's army. They said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
Genesis 26:24
The Lord spoke to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Don't be afraid. I am with you, and I will bless you. I will make your family great. I will do this because of my servant Abraham."
Genesis 26:28
They answered, "Now we know that the Lord is with you. We think that we should make an agreement. We want you to make a promise to us.
Genesis 28:15
"I am with you, and I will protect you everywhere you go. I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised."
Genesis 39:9
My master has made me almost equal to him in his house. I cannot sleep with his wife! That is wrong! It is a sin against God."
Genesis 39:10
The woman talked with Joseph every day, but he refused to sleep with her.
Genesis 39:20
So Potiphar put Joseph into the prison where the king's enemies were held, and that is where Joseph remained.
Genesis 39:21
The Lord was with Joseph and continued to show his kindness to him, so the commander of the prison guards began to like Joseph.
Genesis 39:22
The commander of the guards put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners. Joseph was their leader, but he still did the same work they did.
1 Samuel 3:19
The Lord was with Samuel while he grew up. He did not let any of Samuel's messages prove false.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil?.... Which some understand both of wild goats and hinds. Common goats fulfil five months, they conceive in November, and bring forth in March, as Pliny f observes; but how many the wild goats of the rock fulfil is not said by him or any other I know of: the same writer says g of hinds, that they go eight months;

or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? naturalists h tell us, that the hinds conceive after the rise of the star Arcturus, which rises eleven days before the autumnal equinox; so that they conceive in September; and as they go eight months, they bring forth in April; but then the exact time to a day and hour is not known. Besides, who has fixed the time for their bringing forth, and carries them in it through so many dangers and difficulties? None but the Lord himself. Now if such common things in nature were not known perfectly by Job, how should he be able to search into and find out the causes and reasons of God's providential dealings with men, or what is in the womb of Providence?

f Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 50. g Ib. c. 32. h Ib. & l. 2. c. 47. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 29. Solinus, c. 31.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Canst thou number the months ... - That is, as they wander in the wilderness, as they live in inaccessible crags and cliffs of the rocks, it is impossible for man to be acquainted with their habits as he can with those of the domestic animals.


 
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