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39 “Are you acquainted with the way[a]

the mountain goats[b] give birth?
Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:1 tn The text uses the infinitive as the object: “do you know the giving birth of?”
  2. Job 39:1 tn Or “ibex.”

39 1-4 “Do you know the month when mountain goats give birth?
    Have you ever watched a doe bear her fawn?
Do you know how many months she is pregnant?
    Do you know the season of her delivery,
    when she crouches down and drops her offspring?
Her young ones flourish and are soon on their own;
    they leave and don’t come back.

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39 “Do you know when the mountain goats(A) give birth?
    Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?(B)

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