Job 39:5
Who hath sent out the pere (wild donkey) free, 1 or who hath untied the ropes of the arod (wild donkey, onager), 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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
6Whose bais I have made the aravah, 1 and the barren land his mishkenot (dwellings)? 1
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he will be a pere adam; 1 his yad will be against kol, 1 and kol yad against him; 1 and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Job 6:5Doth the pereh (wild donkey) bray when he hath desheh? 1 Or loweth the ox over his fodder? 1
Job 24:5Look, as wild donkeys in the midbar go they forth to their work; 1 foraging for teref (nourishment); 1 the wilderness yieldeth lechem for them and for their na'arim. 1
Psalms 104:11They give drink to every beast of the sadeh; 1 the pera'im (donkeys) quench their thirst. 1
Jeremiah 2:24A pereh used to the midbar, 1 that sniffs up the ruach in the craving of her nefesh; 1 in her occasion [of heat] who can turn her away? 1 All they that seek her will not weary themselves; 1 in her month they shall find her. 1
Daniel 5:21And he was driven from the bnei haAdam; and his lev was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that El Elyon ruled in the malchut haAdam, and that He appointeth 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 →