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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Green's Literal Translation

Job 39:2

Can you tell the months they fulfill; or do you know the time for their bearing,

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?
Easy-to-Read Version
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?
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?
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 the time when the wild goats of the rock bear? Do you observe the calving of deer? 2 Can you tell the months they fulfill; or do you know the time for their bearing, 3 when they crouch and bring forth; they send out their pangs? 4 Their sons are strong; they multiply with grain; they go forth and do not return to them. 5 Who has sent out the wild ass free, or who has loosened the bands of the wild ass? 6 To whom I have assigned the desert for his home, and the salt land for his dwellings? 7 He laughs at the roar of the city; he does not hear the driver's shouts; 8 he seeks out mountains for his pasture; and he searches after every green thing. 9 Will the wild ox consent to be your servant, or spend the night by your feed-trough? 10 Can you tie the wild ox in the furrow with his rope? Or will he harrow the valleys for you?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:24

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
And it happened at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 26:24
And Jehovah appeared to him in the same night, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you; and I will bless you and increase your seed, because of My servant Abraham.
Genesis 26:28
And they said, Since we plainly have seen that Jehovah has been with you, and we have said, let there be an oath now between us, between us and you, and let us cut a covenant with you,
Genesis 28:15
And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.
Genesis 39:9
No one in this house is greater than I, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, because you are his wife. And how should I do this great evil and sin against God?
Genesis 39:10
And it happened, as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not listen to her, to lie beside her, to be with her.
Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison house, the place where the king's prisoners were bound. And he was there in the prison house.
Genesis 39:21
And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended kindness to him. And He gave him favor in the eyes of the warden of the prison house.
Genesis 39:22
And the warden of the prison house gave all the prisoners in the prison house into Joseph's hand. And all which they did there, he was doing.
1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew up, and Jehovah was with him, and did not let any of his words fall to the earth.

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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