Job 39:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JOB CHAPTER 39 Of the wild goats and hinds, Job 39:1-4; the wild ass, Job 39:5-8; the unicorn, Job 39:9-12; the peacock, stork, and ostrich, Job 39:13-18; the horse, Job 39:19-25; the hawk; the eagle, Job 39:26-30. These creatures, not fully known to Job, or governed by him, are sufficient to convince him that he is no fit judge of the counsels of God. Knowest thou the time, that thou mayst then go to them, and afford them thy help in their hard work? The wild goats of the rock; which dwell in high and steep rocks, where no man can come. See 1 Samuel 24:2 Psalms 104:18. Bring forth; which they do with great difficulty, as is implied, Psalms 29:9, and noted by philosophers, wherein they have no assistance from men, but only from God. When the hinds do calve; when God by his secret instinct directs them to a certain herb called seseli, which, as naturalists report, doth hasten and help forward their birth.