Job 39:7
They do not like the noise in the cities; in the desert they do not have to listen to the shouts of those who force donkeys to work.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
In Context
6I am the one who put them in the desert, in places where grass does not grow.
8They go to the hills to find food; there they search for grass to eat.
Cross References
Exodus 5:18So go and get back to work! We are not going to give you any straw, but you must keep making the same number of bricks!”
Job 39:10And can you fasten it with a rope so that it will plow furrows/trenches in your fields?
Isaiah 31:4But this is what Yahweh said to me: “When a huge lion stands over the body of a sheep that he has killed and growls, even if a large group of shepherds comes to chase/shoo away the lion, even if they shout loudly, the lion will not be afraid and will not leave. Similarly, I, the Commander of the armies of angels, will come down to fight my enemies on Zion Hill, and nothing will hinder me.
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 →