Job 39:5

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

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  • Job 6:5 : 5 Complaints Reflect Suffering“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox bellow over its fodder?
  • Job 11:12 : 12 But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
  • Job 24:5 : 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.
  • Ps 104:11 : 11 They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
  • Isa 32:14 : 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.
  • Jer 2:24 : 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.
  • Jer 14:6 : 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.”
  • Dan 5:21 : 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.
  • Hos 8:9 : 9 Israel’s Hired Lovers They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.
  • Gen 16:12 : 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.”
  • Gen 49:14 : 14 Issachar is a strong-boned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 39:6-11
    6 verses
    80%

    6 to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?

    7 It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver.

    8 It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

    9 Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

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

    11 Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

  • 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.

  • 5 Complaints Reflect Suffering“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox bellow over its fodder?

  • 5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

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

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

  • Job 39:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 “Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

    2 Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

  • Job 39:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19 “Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

    20 Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

    21 It paws the ground in the valley, exulting mightily, it goes out to meet the weapons.

  • Jer 14:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.

    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.”

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

  • 11 Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

  • 20 The king authorized his release; the ruler of nations set him free.

  • 39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

  • 20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

  • 16 yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).

  • 27 He told his sons,“Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it.

  • 3 When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

  • 9 Israel’s Hired Lovers They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

  • 6 This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

  • 45 30,500 donkeys,

  • 5 Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

  • 13 Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

  • 9 Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit.

  • 13 “The wings of the ostrich flap with joy, but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork?

  • 15 She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.

  • 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

  • 28 Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam,“What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

  • 3 A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

  • 30 The donkey said to Balaam,“Am I not your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?” And he said,“No.”

  • 9 You will say to the prisoners,‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons,‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

  • 5 Some people standing there said to them,“What are you doing, untying that colt?”

  • 34 61,000 donkeys,

  • 15 thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

  • 33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”

  • 3 An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”

  • 13 Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?

  • 13 who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running through the wilderness they did not stumble.

  • 31 a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.

  • 11 Taunt against the Once-Mighty Lion Where now is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?