Job 6:5

What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? 1 Or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has fodder? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

In Context

4For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, 1 Whose violence drinks up my blood: 1 Whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me. 1

6Shall bread be eaten without salt? 1 Or again, is there taste in empty words? 1

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Cross References

Psalms 42:1A Psalm of David. 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: 1 Deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1

Jeremiah 14:6The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.

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 →

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