Job 39:4

Job 39:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
• New International Version (NIV)Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds; they leave and do not return.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them.

Context of Job 39:4

2Can you count the number of months that these animals are pregnant? How long must they wait until they give birth? 3They bend down low to the ground. They give birth to the babies that they have carried inside them. The young animals grow and they become strong in the fields. Then they leave their parents and they do not return to them. 5Did you send out the wild donkeys to go wherever they want? 6No! It was me who gave them the desert as their home. I let them live in places where the ground has salt.

Job 39:4 word by word

יַחְלְמ֣וּ בְ֭נֵיהֶם יִרְבּ֣וּ בַבָּ֑ר יָ֝צְא֗וּ וְלֹא־שָׁ֥בוּ לָֽמוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Their young onesבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• are in good likingחָלַםchâlam · be healthyH2492
• they grow upרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• with cornבָּרbâr bar · fieldH1250
• they go forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: comeH3318
• and returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725

Commentaries on Job 39:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4In good liking - After the fawns have sucked for some time, the dam leads them to the pastures, where they feed on different kinds of herbage; but not on corn, for they are not born before harvest-time in Arabia and Palestine, and the stag does not feed on corn, but on grass, moss, and the shoots of the fir, beech, and other trees: therefore the word בר bar, here translated corn, should be translated the open field or country. See Parkhurst. Their…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Their young ones are in good liking - Hebrew “they are fat;” and hence, it means that they are strong and robust. They grow up with corn - Herder, Gesenius, Noyes, Umbreit, and Rosenmuller render this, “in the wilderness,” or “field.” The proper and usual meaning of the word used here (בר bâr ) is corn (grain); but in Chaldee it has the sense of open fields, or country. The same idea is found in the Arabic, and this sense seems to be required by the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-36God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. are in good liking--in good condition, grow up strong. with corn--rather, "in the field," without man's care. return not--being able to provide for themselves.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 39:4

• God

In the dictionaries

• Abide
• Harrow
• Liking
• Mount
• Paw
• Wisdom
• Eagle
• Job, Book of
• Like; Liken; Likeness; Liking

Commentaries on Job 39

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings