Job 6:5

Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

In Context

4For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

6Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

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Cross References

Psalms 42:1As, the hart, cometh panting up to the channels of water, So my soul, panteth for thee, O God.

Jeremiah 14:6Yea, wild asses stand still on the bare heights, They pant for air like jackals,—Dimmed are their eyes Because there is no grass.

Matthew Henry on Job 6:2-8

Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten… Read the whole commentary →

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