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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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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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 39:1 in most Bibles