Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Hast thou numbered the months of their conceiving, or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Canst thou number the months that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?

Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

Have you numbered the months since their conception, and do you know at what time they gave birth?

Canst thou number the months - That is, as they wander in the wilderness, as they live in inaccessible crags and cliffs of the rocks, it is impossible for man to be acquainted with their habits as he can with those of the domestic animals.

Canst thou number the months [that] they (d) fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
(d) That is, how long they go with young?

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil?.... Which some understand both of wild goats and hinds. Common goats fulfil five months, they conceive in November, and bring forth in March, as Pliny (f) observes; but how many the wild goats of the rock fulfil is not said by him or any other I know of: the same writer says (g) of hinds, that they go eight months;
or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? naturalists (h) tell us, that the hinds conceive after the rise of the star Arcturus, which rises eleven days before the autumnal equinox; so that they conceive in September; and as they go eight months, they bring forth in April; but then the exact time to a day and hour is not known. Besides, who has fixed the time for their bringing forth, and carries them in it through so many dangers and difficulties? None but the Lord himself. Now if such common things in nature were not known perfectly by Job, how should he be able to search into and find out the causes and reasons of God's providential dealings with men, or what is in the womb of Providence?
(f) Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 50. (g) Ib. c. 32. (h) Ib. & l. 2. c. 47. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 29. Solinus, c. 31.

They bring forth with ease and do not need to reckon the months of pregnancy, as the shepherd does in the case of his flocks.