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Job 39 |
King James Version
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Job 39:1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? [or] canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
God inquires of Job concerning several animals
In these questions the Lord continued to humble Job. In this chapter several animals are spoken of, whose nature or situation particularly show the power, wisdom, and manifold works of God. The wild ass. It is better to labor and be good for something, than to ramble and be good for nothing. From the untameableness of this and other creatures, we may see, how unfit we are to give law to Providence, who cannot give law even to a wild ass’s colt. The unicorn, a strong, stately, proud creature. He is able to serve, but not willing; and God challenges Job to force him to it. It is a great mercy if, where God gives strength for service, he gives a heart; it is what we should pray for, and reason ourselves into, which the brutes cannot do. Those gifts are not always the most valuable that make the finest show. Who would not rather have the voice of the nightingale, than the tail of the peacock; the eye of the eagle and her soaring wing, and the natural affection of the stork, than the beautiful feathers of the ostrich, which can never rise above the earth, and is without natural affection? The description of the war-horse helps to explain the character of presumptuous sinners. Every one turneth to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle. When a man’s heart is fully set in him to do evil, and he is carried on in a wicked way, by the violence of his appetites and passions, there is no making him fear the wrath of God, and the fatal consequences of sin. Secure sinners think themselves as safe in their sins as the eagle in her nest on high, in the clefts of the rocks; but I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord, [Jer 49:16]. All these beautiful references to the works of nature, should teach us a right view of the riches of the wisdom of Him who made and sustains all things. The want of right views concerning the wisdom of God, which is ever present in all things, led Job to think and speak unworthy of Providence.
Author: Matthew Henry Rank: Priest AD: 1714 Source:
Title: Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible Author: Matthew Henry
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Job 39:2 Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
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Job 39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
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Job 39:4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
Then he adds, “Who has let the wild ass go free?” “Who has disposed things in this manner?” he says. “Who has established the laws of nature?” These are, he says, permanent laws that never change. This animal is strong and untamed. Even if you multiply your efforts, you will never have it under your control. “Who will destroy the decisions that God has taken?” You see that according to Providence and because God wants that, everything yields and obeys us. But if he does not want us to obtain obedience, we can use every means, and it will be of no use. We will gain nothing. Therefore, why is our effort useless, even though we want to get results? That is because when we see a domesticated animal we can admire the docility in which it has been established. But God has left things out of our reach in order that, before those things that are subjected to you, you may not admire your own wisdom and may not attribute to your capability the obedience of that animal. - "Commentary on Job 39.5a"
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 months of their being with young, and if you have relieved their pangs. [Speak out if you] have reared their young without fear. Will you loosen their pangs?” This animal is timorous. How may its young ones, which cannot count on the speed of their legs, be devoid of fear? Who watches them? You see that nature never abandons them, neither the lion rules through its strength, nor is the hind abandoned. - "Commentary on Job 39.1b–3b"
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Job 39:5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
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Job 39:6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
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Job 39:7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
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Job 39:8 The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
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Job 39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
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Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
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Job 39:11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
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Job 39:12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn?
“Is the unicorn willing to serve you?” This animal, as is reported, is similar to an ox and is found in the austral regions, armed with a single horn. In the unicorn, whoever is not subjected at all to the bondage of the world is covertly represented. It is said to be provided with a single horn, because there is only one truth for the righteous. Again the human soul is compared with the unicorn, and it must be defined as endowed with a single horn if it is led by a single movement to the top. Moreover, it is said that the unicorn cannot be caught as its strength and dangerousness are extreme. However, the virgin hunter can win it, after being captured by the pleasure of beauty. So the soul is caught by the things that it has loved. - "Commentary on Job 39.9"
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Job 39:13 [Gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
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Job 39:14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
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Job 39:15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
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Job 39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
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Job 39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
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Job 39:18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
The sort of wings described here appears to signify the synagogue of those who led Christ to the cross. Indeed, who is that mother who generated many children but whose children are not hers? It can only be the one who gave birth to the prophets and brought up the apostles, who are not hers though. Indeed both prophets and apostles, after being adopted into the church, abandoned it. - "Commentary on Job 39.13"
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Job 39:19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
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Job 39:20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils [is] terrible.
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Job 39:21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in [his] strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.
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Job 39:22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
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Job 39:23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
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Job 39:24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet.
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Job 39:25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
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Job 39:26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, [and] stretch her wings toward the south?
How does God keep hawks hovering in the air? How does he provide them with nourishment? You can figure out all that he said from a small number of examples! Why did he not mention beefs or rams or other animals of this kind, but only those that are useless for us and seem to exist without reason? This is in order to show that if wisdom and providence appear in useful animals, they appear even more in those that seem to be useless, because you see that carnivorous birds of prey possess a certain reasonable wisdom that derives from the natural instinct living in each of them. So … some of them are inclined to fight, others scent the corpses, and the vulture remains still in the air. - "Commentary on Job 39.26–30"
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Job 39:27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
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Job 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.
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Job 39:29 From thence she seeketh the prey, [and] her eyes behold afar off.
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Job 39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she.
The eagle is Christ. The high rock is the cross. The young ones licking the blood are the souls of the saints, who feed on Christ’s blood flowing from his side, that blood that also the nations of the believers enjoy like young ones of the heavenly eagle. - "Commentary on Job 39.27"
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