Job 39:5
Who sent out the wild ass free? or who loosened the bonds of the forest-ass?
Leeser Tanakh
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
6To whom I assigned the wilderness as his house, and the salty land as his dwellings.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and in the presence of all his brethren shall he dwell.
Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray over the grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 24:5Behold, as wild asses in the wilderness go they forth to their work, rising betimes after [their] prey: the desert yieldeth food for them and for their young men.
Psalms 104:11They give drink to all the beasts of the field: the wild asses quench [thereon] their thirst.
Jeremiah 2:24[Like] a wild ass used to the wilderness, that at her pleasure snuffeth up the wind; her lust—who can turn this away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month will they find her.
Daniel 5:21And from the sons of men was he driven forth, and his heart became equal with [that of] the beasts, and with the wild asses was his dwelling; they suffered him to eat herbs like oxen, and with the dew of heaven was his body made wet: till he acknowledged that the most high God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he pleaseth.
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 →