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39 “Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
Can you count the months that they fulfill?
    Or do you know the time when they give birth?
They bow themselves. They bear their young.
    They end their labor pains.
Their young ones become strong.
    They grow up in the open field.
    They go out, and don’t return again.

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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?
Their young are strong;
    they grow up in the open field;
then they go off
    and don’t return to them.”

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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