English Standard Version
Job 39:5
5"Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
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?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes?
Context of Job 39:5
3when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young? 4Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them. "Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, 6to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place? 7He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
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מִֽי־שִׁלַּ֣ח פֶּ֣רֶא חָפְשִׁ֑י וּמֹסְר֥וֹת עָ֝ר֗וֹד מִ֣י פִתֵּֽחַ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 39:5
- Job 6:5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
- Job 11:12But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!
- Job 24:5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
- Genesis 16:12He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."
- Psalms 104:11they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
- Isaiah 32:14For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
- Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
- Jeremiah 14:6The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.
- Daniel 5:21He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.
- Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
- Genesis 49:14"Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.
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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