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Job 6:5

Job 6:5 is verse 5 of Job chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Job 6:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.

4 For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

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

6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg ?

7 My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

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

Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Psalms 42:1
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

Jeremiah 14:6
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

Joel 1:18
How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

Joel 1:19
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

Joel 1:20
Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.