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39 “Are you acquainted with the way[a]

the mountain goats[b] give birth?
Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?
Do you count the months they must fulfill,
and do you know the time they give birth?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 39:1 tn The text uses the infinitive as the object: “do you know the giving birth of?”
  2. Job 39:1 tn Or “ibex.”
  3. Job 39:2 tn Here the infinitive is again a substantive: “the time of their giving birth.”