Job 6:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:1 : 1 Book 2(Psalms 42-72) For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
  • 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.”
  • Joel 1:18-20 : 18 Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. 19 To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields. 20 Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the pastures of the wilderness.

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  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass.

    6Wild 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.”

  • Job 39:5-10
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    5Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 6:6
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    6Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

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

  • Amos 3:4
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    4Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?

  • Ps 104:11
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    11They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

  • Job 39:1
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    1“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

  • Job 39:19-21
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    19“Do you give the horse its strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

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

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

  • Amos 6:12
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    12Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.

  • Job 24:5
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    5Like 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.

  • Job 38:39-40
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    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Job 40:15
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    15The Description of Behemoth“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • Job 11:12
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    12But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.

  • Isa 30:24
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    24The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.

  • Ps 50:13
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    13Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

  • Job 12:11
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    11Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?

  • 1 Cor 9:9
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    9For it is written in the law of Moses,“Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

  • Job 12:7
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    7Knowledge of God’s Wisdom“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

  • Jer 2:24
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    24You 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.

  • Job 39:24
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    24In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.

  • Job 40:20
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    20For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

  • Job 30:7
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    7They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

  • Isa 1:3
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    3An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”

  • Ps 92:6
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    6The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

  • Isa 32:20
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    20you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

  • Job 3:24
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    24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

  • 2 Pet 2:16
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    16yet was rebuked for his own transgression(a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).

  • Job 1:14
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    14and a messenger came to Job, saying,“The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

  • Ps 8:7
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    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

  • Deut 25:4
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    4You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.

  • Num 22:30
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    30The 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.”

  • Job 36:33
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    33His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

  • Job 35:11
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    11who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

  • Job 6:13
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    13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

  • Job 27:9
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    9Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?

  • Prov 26:3
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    3A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

  • Job 21:10
    67%

    10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

  • Job 31:38
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    38Job’s Final Solemn Oath“If my land cried out against me and all its furrows wept together,

  • Job 41:3
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    3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?