ヨブ記 39:1-25 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 39:1-12

God here shows Job what little acquaintance he had with the untamed creatures that run wild in the deserts and live at large, but are the care of the divine Providence. As, I. The wild goats and the hinds. That which is taken notice of concerning them is the bringing forth and bringing up of their young ones. For, as every individual is fed, so every species of animals is preserved, by the care of the divine Providence, and, for aught we know, none extinct to this day. Observe here, 1.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 39:13-18

The ostrich is a wonderful animal, a very large bird, but it never flies. Some have called it a winged camel. God here gives an account of it, and observes, I. Something that it has in common with the peacock, that is, beautiful feathers Job 39:13): Gavest thou proud wings unto the peacocks? so some read it. Fine feathers make proud birds. The peacock is an emblem of pride; when he struts, and shows his fine feathers, Solomon in all his glory is not arrayed like him. The ostrich too has goodly... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 39:19-25

God, having displayed his own power in those creatures that are strong and despise man, here shows it in one scarcely inferior to any of them in strength, and yet very tame and serviceable to man, and that is the horse, especially the horse that is prepared against the day of battle and is serviceable to man at a time when he has more than ordinary occasion for his service. It seems, there was, in Job's country, a noble generous breed of horses. Job, it is probable, kept many, though they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:1

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth ?.... Which creatures are so called, because they dwell among the rocks F4 "----Amantis saxa capellae". Ovid. Epist. 15. v. 55. and run upon them; and though their heads are loaded with a vast burden of horns upon them, yet can so poise themselves, as with the greatest swiftness, to leap from mountain to mountain, as Pliny says F5 Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 53. Aelian. de Animal. l. 14. c. 16. : and if they bring forth... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:2

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil ?.... Which some understand both of wild goats and hinds. Common goats fulfil five months, they conceive in November, and bring forth in March, as Pliny F6 Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 50. observes; but how many the wild goats of the rock fulfil is not said by him or any other I know of: the same writer says F7 Ib. c. 32. of hinds, that they go eight months; or knowest thou the time when they bring forth ? naturalists F8 Ib. & l.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:3

They bow themselves ,.... That they may bring forth their young with greater ease and more safety: for it seems the hinds bring forth their young with great difficulty; and there are provisions in nature made to lessen it; as thunder, before observed, which causes them to bring forth the sooner; and there is an herb called "seselis", which it is said F9 Cicero de Natura Deoram, l. 2. Plin. Nat. Hist. c. 8. 32. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 5. they feed upon before birth, to make it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:4

Their young ones are in good liking ,.... Plump, fat, and sleek, as fawns are: they grow up with corn ; by which they grow, or without in the field, as the word also signifies; and their growth and increase is very quick, as Aristotle observes F12 Ib. (Aristot. Hist. Animal.) l. 6. c. 29. ; they go forth, and return not unto them : they go forth into the fields, and shift and provide for themselves, and trouble their dams no more; and return not to them, nor are they known by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:5

Who hath sent out the wild ass free ?.... Into the wide waste, where it is, ranges at pleasure, and is not under the restraint of any; a creature which, as it is naturally wild, is naturally averse to servitude, is desirous of liberty and maintains it: not but that it may be tamed, as Pliny F13 Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 44. speaks of such as are; but it chooses to be free, and, agreeably to its nature, it is sent out into the wilderness as such: not that it is set free from bondage, for in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:6

Whose house I have made the wilderness ,.... Appointed that to be his place of residence, as being agreeable to his nature, at a distance from men, and in the less danger of being brought into subjection by them. Such were the deserts of Arabia; where, as Xenophon F14 De Expedition. Cyri, l. 1. relates, were many of these creatures, and which he represents as very swift: and Leo Africanus F15 Descriptio Africae, l. 9. p. 752. says, great numbers of them are found in deserts, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:7

He scorneth the multitude of the city ,.... Choosing rather to be alone in the wilderness and free than to be among a multitude of men in a city, and be a slave as the tame ass; or it despises and defies a multitude of men, that may come out of cities to take it, Leo Africanus says F18 Ut supra. (Descriptio Africae, l. 9. p. 752.) it yields to none for swiftness but Barbary horses: according to Xenophon F19 Ut supra. (De Expedition. Cyril, l. 1.) , it exceeds the horse in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 39:1-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 39:13-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 39:19-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 39:7

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