Job 39:3

"Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?"

Key Reflection

In Job 39:3, God asks if Job can discern the exact timing of animals' pregnancies and births, highlighting His sovereignty over nature. This question underscores that just as God controls the natural world, He also governs the mysterious timing of His own purposes and plans in human life.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They bow themselves -literally, they curve or bend themselves; that is, they draw their limbs together. They cast out their sorrows -That is, they cast forth the offspring of their pains, or the young which cause their pains. The idea seems to be, that they do this without any of the care and attention which shepherds are obliged to show to their flocks at such seasons. They do it when God only guards them; when they are in the wilderness or on the rocks far away from the abodes of man.

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