Job 6:5
Don't wild donkeys bray when their grass is gone? Don't cattle groan when they don't have food!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
In Context
6Can something that's tasteless be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Cross References
Psalms 42:1As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God.
Jeremiah 14:6Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills, panting like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have nothing to eat.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:2-8
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten… Read the whole commentary →