Job 39:5
“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
World English Bible British
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
4Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.
6whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
Cross References
Genesis 16:12He will be like a wild donkey amongst men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”
Job 6:5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Job 24:5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
Psalms 104:11They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.
Daniel 5:21He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever 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 →