“He is right in saying, "Have you protected the calving of the hinds?" Since flight, fear and anxiety are usual in this kind of animal, which never ceases from leaping and galloping, how, he says, can it not abort, so do you know how its young can be given birth at the right time? "Say if you have numbered the full mon…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 39:1B-3B
Original
2Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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In context
1Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
— Job 39:2 —
3They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
4Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.