Christian Standard Bible
Job 39:5
5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its harness?
Job 39:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
- New International Version (NIV)“Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,
Context of Job 39:5
3They crouch down to give birth to their young; they deliver their newborn. 4Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field. They leave and do not return. Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from its harness? 6I made the desert its home, and the salty wasteland its dwelling. 7It scoffs at the noise of the village and never hears the shouts of a driver.
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מִֽי־שִׁלַּ֣ח פֶּ֣רֶא חָפְשִׁ֑י וּמֹסְר֥וֹת עָ֝ר֗וֹד מִ֣י פִתֵּֽחַ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 39:5
- Job 6:5Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass or an ox low over its fodder?
- Job 11:12But a stupid person will gain understanding as soon as a wild donkey is born a human!
- Job 24:5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor go out to their task of foraging for food; the desert provides nourishment for their children.
- Genesis 16:12This man will be like a wild donkey. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him; he will settle near all his relatives.”
- Psalms 104:11They supply water for every wild beast; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
- Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places forever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,
- Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness. She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can control her passion? All who look for her will not become weary; they will find her in her mating season.
- Jeremiah 14:6Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights panting for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there are no green plants.
- Daniel 5:21He was driven away from people, his mind was like an animal’s, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky until he acknowledged that the Most High God is ruler over human kingdoms and sets anyone he wants over them.
- Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey going off on its own. Ephraim has paid for love.
- Genesis 49:14Issachar is a strong donkey lying down between the saddlebags.
Commentaries on Job 39:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? - פרא pere, which we translate wild ass, is the same as the of the Greeks, and the onager of the Latins; which must not, says Buffon, be confounded with the zebra, for this is an animal of a different species from the ass. The wild ass is not striped like the zebra, nor so elegantly shaped. There are many of those animals in the deserts of Libya and Numidia: they are of a gray color; and run so swiftly that no horse…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? - For a description of the wild ass, see the notes at Job 11:12. On the meaning of the word rendered “free” (חפשׁי chophshı̂y ), see the notes at Isaiah 58:6. These animals commonly “inhabit the dry and mountainous parts of the deserts of Great Tartary, but not higher than about latitude 48 degrees. They are migratory, and arrive in vast troops to feed, during the summer, on the tracts to the north and east of the sea…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-7the wild donkey … scorns the tumult of the city: This is the first example in a series of animals that think little of other animals not their equal (compare 39:18, 22; 41:29). These images show how God scorns the opposition of a person like Job (see Psalm 2:4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. wild ass--Two different Hebrew words are here used for the same animal, "the ass of the woods" and "the wild ass." (See on Job 6:5; Job 11:12; Job 24:5; and Jr 2:24). loosed the bands--given its liberty to. Man can rob animals of freedom, but not, as God, give freedom, combined with subordination to fixed laws.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 39
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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