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The LORD Speaks of His Creation

Job 39:1

In 11 translations

BSB
“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
KJV
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
WEB
“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
ASV
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
LSV
“Have you known the time of || The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? Do you mark the bringing forth of does?
YLT
Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
DBY
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
DRC
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats bring forth among the rocks, or hast thou observed the hinds when they fawn?
GNV39:4
Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
JPS
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
LXXE
Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds:

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הֲיָדַ֗עְתָּ עֵ֭ת לֶ֣דֶת יַעֲלֵי־סָ֑לַע חֹלֵ֖ל אַיָּל֣וֹת תִּשְׁמֹֽר׃
LXX-Br
Εἰ ἔγνως καιρὸν τοκετοῦ τραγελάφων πέτρας, ἐφύλαξας δὲ ὠδῖνας ἐλάφων,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 29:9The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
  • 1 Samuel 24:2So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
  • Psalms 104:18The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
  • Jeremiah 14:5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
  • Deuteronomy 14:5the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

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  • 39:1 in most Bibles

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