The Meaning of Job 39:1 Explained

Job 39:1

KJV: Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

YLT: Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!

Darby: Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?

ASV: Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Knowest  thou the time  when the wild goats  of the rock  bring forth?  [or] canst thou mark  when the hinds  do calve? 

What does Job 39:1 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 39:1-30 - "knowest Thou?" "canst Thou?"
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 ass, Job 39:5-8; the wild ox, Job 39:9-12; the peacocks and ostriches, Job 39:13-18; the war horse, Job 39:19-25; the hawk, Job 39:26-30. In each case some special point is asked, hidden from the observation of ordinary men. If Job were unable to know more than they on such matters as these, how could he expect to know more than they of the reasons that dictate God's dealings with His people?
There is mystery in every part of the universe of God. He hides Himself, so that we cannot discover Him. His thoughts are deeper, His ways profounder, than our mind can fathom. There is not a single pathway leading out of the garden of life along which a man, traversing it, will not come to a point when the track dies away in the grass and there is no further progress. In nature and in Scripture alike we have to deal with the inscrutability of God's ways. Nor can we wonder, if the God of the Bible and of nature be the God of providence, to find mystery also there. This is the argument of The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, by Bishop Butler. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 39

1  Of the wild goats and hinds
5  Of the wild donkey
9  The unicorn
13  The peacock, stork, and ostrich
19  The horse
26  The hawk
27  The eagle

What do the individual words in Job 39:1 mean?

Do you know the time when bear young the wild mountain goats of the rock when gives birth the deer [Or] can you mark
הֲיָדַ֗עְתָּ עֵ֭ת ؟ לֶ֣דֶת יַעֲלֵי־ סָ֑לַע ؟ חֹלֵ֖ל אַיָּל֣וֹת תִּשְׁמֹֽר

הֲיָדַ֗עְתָּ  Do  you  know 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, second person masculine singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
עֵ֭ת  the  time  when 
Parse: Noun, common singular construct
Root: עֵת  
Sense: time.
؟ לֶ֣דֶת  bear  young 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: יָלַד 
Sense: to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail.
יַעֲלֵי־  the  wild  mountain  goats 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: יָעֵל  
Sense: mountain goat.
סָ֑לַע  of  the  rock 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: סֶלַע  
Sense: crag, cliff, rock.
؟ חֹלֵ֖ל  when  gives  birth 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Infinitive construct
Root: חוּל 
Sense: to twist, whirl, dance, writhe, fear, tremble, travail, be in anguish, be pained.
אַיָּל֣וֹת  the  deer 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: אַיָּלָה  
Sense: doe, deer, hind.
תִּשְׁמֹֽר  [Or]  can  you  mark 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: שָׁמַר  
Sense: to keep, guard, observe, give heed.

What are the major concepts related to Job 39:1?

Loading Information...