Job 39:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. ”

• Job 39:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Their young ones are in good liking - Hebrew “they are fat;” and hence, it means that they are strong and robust. They grow up with corn - Herder, Gesenius, Noyes, Umbreit, and Rosenmuller re...

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• Job 39:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  with corn . in the open field. Hebrew. bar.. Homonym with three meanings: (1) pure, clear, clean ( Job 11:4 . Song of Solomon 6:9 ; Song of Solomon 6:10 ; Psalms 19:8 ; Psalms 24:4 ; Psalms...

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• Job 39:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. In good liking - After the fawns have sucked for some time, the dam leads them to the pastures, w...

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• Job 39:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. Are in good liking - in good condition, grow up strong. With corn - rather, in the fi...

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• Job 39:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty (concluded) Chs. Job 38:39-41 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. I...

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• Job 39:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XXXIX. (4) They grow up with corn. — Or more probably, perhaps, in the open field, as the word means according to some.

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• Job 39:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job make...

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• Job 39:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Knowest Thou?” “Canst Thou?” Job 39:1-30 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1-4 ; the wild...

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• Job 39:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameab...

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• Job 39:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? (2) Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when...

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• Job 39:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Their young ones are in good liking ,.... Plump, fat, and sleek, as fawns are: they grow up with corn ; by which they grow, or without in the field, as the word also signifies; and their growth an...

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• Job 39:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. Ver. 4. Their young ones are in good liking ] Or, they recover; revalescent begin to grow wel...

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• Job 39:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Their young ones are in good liking Notwithstanding their great weakness caused by their hard entrance into the world. They grow up with corn As with corn; that is, as if they were fed with cor...

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• Job 39:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did...

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• Job 39:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. B. C.  1520....

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• Job 39:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Are in good liking; or, grow strong , or fat ; notwithstanding their great weakness caused by their hard entrance into the world. With corn; which they find and feed upon in the fields. Or, as...

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• Job 39:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 39:13 . “ Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich? ” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rend...

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• Job 39:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 39:1 . The wild goat, on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws...

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• Job 39:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? The study of zoology a religious duty God is here represented as calling the attention of Job to various orders of animal life...

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• Job 39:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 39:1-18 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39 . The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (...

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• Job 39:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth, their homes being on the rocks near the summits of the mountains? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve, noting the t...

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• Job 39:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Young ones — Notwithstanding their great weakness caused by their hard entrance into the world. Grow up — As with corn, that is, as if they were fed with corn. Go forth — Finding sufficient provisi...

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