New Living Translation
Job 39:7
7It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it.
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.
- New International Version (NIV)It laughs at the commotion in the town; it does not hear a driver’s shout.
- 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.
Context of Job 39:7
5“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes? 6I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland. It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it. 8The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass. 9“Will the wild ox consent to being tamed? Will it spend the night in your stall?
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 39:18But whenever she jumps up to run, she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.
- Job 3:18Even captives are at ease in death, with no guards to curse them.
- Isaiah 31:4But this is what the Lord has told me: “When a strong young lion stands growling over a sheep it has killed, it is not frightened by the shouts and noise of a whole crowd of shepherds. In the same way, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will come down and fight on Mount Zion.
- Exodus 5:13Meanwhile, the Egyptian slave drivers continued to push hard. “Meet your daily quota of bricks, just as you did when we provided you with straw!” they demanded.
- Isaiah 58:3‘We have fasted before you!’ they say. ‘Why aren’t you impressed? We have been very hard on ourselves, and you don’t even notice it!’ “I will tell you why!” I respond. “It’s because you are fasting to please yourselves. Even while you fast, you keep oppressing 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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