Job 39:2
Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
BSB
ASV
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
KJV
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Shall we pretend to tell what is in the womb of Providence, or what a day will bring forth, who know not the time of the pregnancy of a hind or a wild goat?
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they…
leads to
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble…
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!