Job 39:8
Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
In Context
7Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them.
9It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings.
Cross References
Genesis 1:29And God said, Beholde, I haue giuen vnto you euery herbe bearing seede, which is vpon al the earth, and euery tree, wherein is the fruite of a tree bearing seede: that shall be to you for meate.
Job 40:15Surely the mountaines bring him foorth grasse, where all the beastes of the fielde play.
Psalms 104:27All these waite vpon thee, that thou maiest giue them foode in due season.
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 →