Job 39:4
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Job 39:4 in other translations
| BSB | Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return. |
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| WEB | Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again. |
| ASV | Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again. |
| YLT | Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them. |
| DARBY | Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them. |
| BBE | Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again. |
| Webster | Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not to them. |
What does Job 39:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. are in good liking--in good condition, grow up strong. with corn--rather, "in the field," without man's care. return not--being able to provide for themselves.
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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 בר 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, etc.? 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?"
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Job 39:4 in the original Hebrew
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לָֽמוֹ\׃la.moto them
Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).
Context
- Job 39:3
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
- Job 39:4
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
- Job 39:5
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Job 39:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Sabes tú el tiempo en que paren las cabras monteses? ¿ó miraste tú las ciervas cuando están pariendo? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Leurs petits deviennent forts, ils grandissent dans les champs, ils s’en vont et ne reviennent pas à elles. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ihre Kinder werden stark, wachsen auf im Freien; sie gehen aus und kehren nicht zu ihnen zurück. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Separantur filii earum, et pergunt ad pastum: egrediuntur, et non revertuntur ad eas. |