The Meaning of Job 39:4 Explained

Job 39:4

KJV: Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

YLT: Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

Darby: Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.

ASV: Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Their young ones  are in good liking,  they grow up  with corn;  they go forth,  and return  not unto them. 

What does Job 39:4 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 39:4 mean?

Are healthy their young ones they grow strong with grain they depart and not do return to them
יַחְלְמ֣וּ בְ֭נֵיהֶם יִרְבּ֣וּ בַבָּ֑ר יָ֝צְא֗וּ וְלֹא־ שָׁ֥בוּ לָֽמוֹ

יַחְלְמ֣וּ  Are  healthy 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: חָלַם 
Sense: to dream.
בְ֭נֵיהֶם  their  young  ones 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
יִרְבּ֣וּ  they  grow  strong 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: הַרְבָּה 
Sense: be or become great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous.
בַבָּ֑ר  with  grain 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּר 
Sense: corn, grain.
יָ֝צְא֗וּ  they  depart 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: יׄוצֵאת 
Sense: to go out, come out, exit, go forth.
וְלֹא־  and  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
שָׁ֥בוּ  do  return 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: שׁוּב  
Sense: to return, turn back.
לָֽמוֹ  to  them 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural

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