39 Do you know when mountain goats give birth?
Have you watched the deer in labor?
Can you count the months they are pregnant[a]
so you can know the time they give birth?
They crouch down to give birth to their young;
they deliver their newborn.[b]
Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field.
They leave and do not return.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:2 Lit months they fulfill
  2. Job 39:3 Or they send away their labor pains
  3. Job 39:4 Lit return to them

Mountain goat and doe

39 Do you know when mountain goats give birth;
    do you observe the birthing of does?
Can you count the months of pregnancy;
    do you know when they give birth?
They crouch, split open for their young,
    send forth their offspring.
Their young are healthy; they grow up in the open country,
    leave and never return.

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