Job 39:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Job 39:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 6:5
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 24:5
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Job 11:12
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
Psalms 104:11
They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

God here shows Job what little acquaintance he had with the untamed creatures that run wild in the deserts and live at large, but are the care of the divine Providence. As, I. The wild goats and the hinds. That which is taken notice of concerning them is the bringing forth and bringing up of their young ones. For, as every individual is fed, so every species of animals is preserved, by the care of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. wild ass--Two different Hebrew words are here used for the same animal, “the ass of the woods” and “the wild ass.” (See on Job 6:5; Job 11:12; Job 24:5; and Jr 2:24). loosed the bands--given its liberty to. Man can rob animals of freedom, but not, as God, give freedom, combined with subordination to fixed laws.