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Job 21:10

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21:10Their bulls25 breed26 without fail;27

their cows calve and do not miscarry.

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Footnotes

  1. 25 Heb “his bull,” but it is meant to signify the bulls of the wicked.
  2. 26 The verb used here means “to impregnate,” and not to be confused with the verb עָבַר (’avar, “to pass over”).
  3. 27 The use of the verb גָּעַר (ga’ar) in this place is interesting. It means “to rebuke; to abhor; to loathe.” In the causative stem it means “to occasion impurity” or “to reject as loathsome.” The rabbinic interpretation is that it does not emit semen in vain, and so the meaning is it does not fail to breed (see E. Dhorme, Job, 311; R. Gordis, Job, 229).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Their bull breeds without fail;

their cow calves and does not miscarry.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Their bulls never fail to breed;

their cows calve and do not miscarry.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Their bulls breed without fail;

their cows calve and do not miscarry.

NLTNew Living Translation

Their bulls never fail to breed.

Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

His bull breeds and does not fail;

his cow calves and does not miscarry.

KJV 1900King James Version

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;

Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.