The Meaning of Job 39:2 Explained

Job 39:2

KJV: Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

YLT: Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

Darby: Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

ASV: Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Discover Job 39:2

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 39:2?

MEANING: What does Job 39:2 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 39:2 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 39:2?

What is the context of Job 39:2?

On the Birth of Young (Job 39:1-4)
The Lord Answers Job (Job 39:1-30)
God Continues to Challenge Job (Job 39:1-30)
The Lord’s Challenge Continues (Job 39:1-30)
Yahweh Interrogates Job (Job 39:1-30)
God Speaks of Nature and Its Beings (Job 39:1-30)
The Lord Speaks (Job 39:1-30)

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

What does Job 39:2 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 39:2 mean?

Can you number the months [that] they fulfill Or do you know the time when they bear young

תִּסְפֹּ֣ר יְרָחִ֣ים ؟ תְּמַלֶּ֑אנָה וְ֝יָדַ֗עְתָּ עֵ֣ת ؟ לִדְתָּֽנָה

תִּסְפֹּ֣ר	Can you number
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular Root: סָפַר Sense: to count, recount, relate.
יְרָחִ֣ים	the months
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: יֶרַח Sense: month (lunar cycle), moon.
؟ תְּמַלֶּ֑אנָה	[that] they fulfill
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, third person feminine plural Root: מָלֵא Sense: to fill, be full.
וְ֝יָדַ֗עְתָּ	Or do you know
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive perfect, second person masculine singular Root: דָּעָה Sense: to know.
עֵ֣ת	the time
Parse: Noun, common singular Root: עֵת Sense: time.
؟ לִדְתָּֽנָה	when they bear young
Parse: Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, third person feminine plural Root: יָלַד Sense: to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail.

What are the major concepts related to Job 39:2?

Loading Information...

Similar Scriptures for Job 39:2

Jeremiah 2:24 [2]