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On the Birth of Young

39 “Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth?
    Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?
Can you count the months of their gestation?
    Do you know the time when they give birth,
when they crouch down[a] to give birth[b] to their offspring,
    and let go[c] of their birth pangs?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:3 Or bow down
  2. Job 39:3 Lit. cleave open
  3. Job 39:3 Lit. send

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

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

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

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