KJV King James Version
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
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Job 39:5
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
WEB World English Bible
“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
ASV American Standard Version
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?
Surrounding context — Job 39
2 Canst thou number the months [that] they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
8 The range of the mountains [is] his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
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Job 6:5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?Job 11:12For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass’s colt.Job 24:5Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.Psalm 104:11They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.Genesis 16:12And he will be a wild man; his hand [will be] against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.Isaiah 32:14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;Hosea 8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.Daniel 5:21And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling [was] with the wild asses: 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 ruled in the kingdom of men, and [that] he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.Genesis 49:14Issachar [is] a strong ass couching down between two burdens:Jeremiah 14:6And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because [there was] no grass.
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