Job 39:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:29-30 : 29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food: 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
  • Job 40:15 : 15 He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.
  • Job 40:20-22 : 20 Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth? 21 Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue? 22 Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. 28 They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. 16 By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

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    9 To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

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    20 Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

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  • Job 39:6-7
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    6 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

    7 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

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    6 He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.

  • Job 39:19-21
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    19 She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

    20 For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

    21 When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

  • Ps 50:10-11
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    10 For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

    11 I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.

  • Num 24:8
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    8 It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.

  • Job 6:5
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    5 Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

  • Ps 147:8-9
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    8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

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  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

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  • Ps 104:11
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    11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

  • Job 28:8-10
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    8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

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    25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

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    15 He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

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