Job 39:5

“Who allows the wild donkeys to go wherever they want [DOU]?

Translation for Translators

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

4The young fawns grow up in the open fields, and then they leave their mothers and do not return to them again.

6I am the one who put them in the desert, in places where grass does not grow.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:12But your son will be as uncontrollable as a wild donkey [MET]. He will oppose everyone, and everyone will oppose him [MTY]. He will live far away from his relatives [SYN].”

Job 6:5Just like a wild donkey does not complain by braying when it has plenty of grass to eat, and an ox does not complain by bellowing when it has food to eat [MET], I would not complain if you were really helping/comforting me.

Job 24:5The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert like wild donkeys do.

Psalms 104:11Those streams provide water for all the animals to drink; the wild donkeys drink the water and are no longer thirsty.

Jeremiah 2:24You are like wild female donkeys in the desert. They sniff the air to find where the male donkeys are, and no one can [RHQ] restrain them. The male donkeys that want them do not become tired searching for them, because at mating time they find them easily.

Daniel 5:21His officials sent him away in order that he would not be near other people. God caused him to have a mind like animals have. He lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like cows do, and dew from the sky caused his body to be damp/wet each morning. He was like that until he learned that the Supreme God is really the one who rules the kingdoms of this world, and that he appoints whomever he chooses to rule those kingdoms.

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 →

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