Job 39:5

New English Translation

Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

Cross References

Genesis 16:12

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

Genesis 49:14

Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.

Job 11:12

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.

Job 24:5

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

Job 39:10

Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

Job 39:4

Their young grow strong, and grow up in the open; they go off, and do not return to them.

Job 6:5

“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?

Psalm 104:11

They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Isaiah 32:14

For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.

Jeremiah 14:6

Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

Daniel 5:21

He was driven from human society, his mind was changed to that of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.

Hosea 8:9

They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.