1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Job 39:3 They bow themselves to bring forth young, and they cast them, and send forth roarings.

Roarings. They pretend that these animals bring forth with great difficulty, Psalm 28:9. (Vatable, etc.) --- Aristotle (V. 2., and 6:29.) asserts, that they receive the male bending down, as Hebrew may be here explained. "They bend, they divide their young," as they have often two; "and they leave their strings" at the navel, etc. (Calmet)