Job 39:5
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
In Context
4Their young ones wax strong, they grow up in the open field; they go forth, and return not again.
6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren.'
Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 24:5Behold, as wild asses in the wilderness they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; the desert yieldeth them bread for their children.
Psalms 104:11They give drink to every beast of the field, the wild asses quench their thirst.
Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; her lust, who can hinder it? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Daniel 5:21and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that God Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that He setteth up over it whomsoever He will.
Matthew Henry on Job 39:2-13
Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? 2 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? 3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. 4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. 5… Read the whole commentary →