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39 “Do you know the time when the goats of the rocks give birth?
Do you observe the doe deer’s giving birth?
Can you number the months they fulfill,
and do you know the time of its giving birth?
When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones;
they get rid of their labor pains.[a]
Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open;
they go forth and do not return to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:3 Or “deliver their fetuses”

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