New King James Version
Job 39:5
5“Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,
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 Living Translation (NLT)“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes?
Context of Job 39:5
3They bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliver their offspring. 4Their young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not return to them. “Who set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager, 6Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling? 7He scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
Read all of Job 39Job 39:5 word by word
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 it has grass, Or does the ox low over its fodder?
- Job 11:12For an empty-headed man will be wise, When a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.
- Job 24:5Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, They go out to their work, searching for food. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
- Genesis 16:12He shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, And every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
- Psalms 104:11They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
- Isaiah 32:14Because the palaces will be forsaken, The bustling city will be deserted. The forts and towers will become lairs forever, A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—
- Jeremiah 2:24A wild donkey used to the wilderness, That sniffs at the wind in her desire; In her time of mating, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves; In her month they will find her.
- Jeremiah 14:6And the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights; They sniffed at the wind like jackals; Their eyes failed because there was no grass.”
- Daniel 5:21Then he was driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses.
- Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.
- Genesis 49:14“Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between two burdens;
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
Topics related to Job 39:5
In the dictionaries
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
New King James Version — © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc
Commentaries