King James Version
Job 39:4 in the King James Version says “Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.” — study this verse from Job chapter 39 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.”
Job 39:4 · KJV
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. barren: Heb. salt places
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“are in good liking”
H2492properly, to bind firmly, i.e., (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
“Their young ones”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“with corn”
H1250grain of any kind (even while standing in the field); by extension the open country
“they go forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“and return”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
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