New International Version
Job 39:7
7It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout.
Job 39:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
- New Living Translation (NLT)It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it.
Context of Job 39:7
5“Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied its ropes? 6I gave it the wasteland as its home, the salt flats as its habitat. It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout. 8It ranges the hills for its pasture and searches for any green thing. 9“Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will it stay by your manger at night?
Read all of Job 39Job 39:7 word by word
יִ֭שְׂחַק לַהֲמ֣וֹן קִרְיָ֑ה תְּשֻׁא֥וֹת נ֝וֹגֵ֗שׂ לֹ֣א יִשְׁמָֽע׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 39:7
- Job 39:18Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.
- Job 3:18Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.
- Isaiah 31:4This is what the Lord says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
- Exodus 5:13The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, “Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.”
- Isaiah 58:3‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
Commentaries on Job 39:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7He scorneth the multitude - He is so swift that he cannot be run or hunted down. See the description in Job 39:5; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7He scorneth the multitude of the city - That is, he sets all this at defiance; he is not intimidated by it. He finds his home far away from the city in the wild freedom of the wilderness. Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver - Margin, “exacter.” The Hebrew word properly means a collector of taxes or revenue, and hence, an oppressor, and a driver of cattle. The allusion here is to a driver, and the meaning is, that he is not subject to restraint…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. 77. multitude--rather, "din"; he sets it at defiance, being far away from it in the freedom of the wilderness. driver--who urges on the tame ass to work. The wild ass is the symbol of uncontrolled freedom in the East; even kings have, therefore, added its name to them.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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