Job 39:5

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Job 39:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.

4 Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.

5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

6 I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

7 He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 6:5

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

Job 11:12

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Job 24:5

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Genesis 16:12

He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Psalms 104:11

They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

Daniel 5:21

He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Genesis 49:14

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.