Verse 5
Job 39:5
World English Bible, British Edition
5
“Who has set the wild donkey free?
Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִֽי שִׁלַּ֣ח פֶּ֣רֶא חָפְשִׁ֑י וּ/מֹסְר֥וֹת עָ֝ר֗וֹד מִ֣י פִתֵּֽחַ
English Translation
Who has released the wild donkey, and who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey?
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Chapter 39 Context
1
“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
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Can you count the months that they fulfil?
Or do you know the time when they give birth?
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They bow themselves. They bear their young.
They end their labour pains.
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Their young ones become strong.
They grow up in the open field.
They go out, and don’t return again.
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“Who has set the wild donkey free?
Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
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whose home I have made the wilderness,
and the salt land his dwelling place?
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7
He scorns the tumult of the city,
neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
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The range of the mountains is his pasture.
He searches after every green thing.
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9
“Will the wild ox be content to serve you?
Or will he stay by your feeding trough?
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Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness?
Or will he till the valleys after you?
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Will you trust him, because his strength is great?
Or will you leave to him your labour?
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12
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,
and gather the grain of your threshing f...
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13
“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
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For she leaves her eggs on the earth,
warms them in the dust,
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and forgets that the foot may crush them,
or that the wild animal may trample them.
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She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.
Though her labour is in vain, she i...
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because God (Elohim) has deprived her of wisdom,
neither has he imparted to her understanding.
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18
When she lifts up herself on high,
she scorns the horse and his rider.
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19
“Have you given the horse might?
Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
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Have you made him to leap as a locust?
The glory of his snorting is awesome.
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21
He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.
He goes out to meet the armed men.
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22
He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,
neither does he turn back from the sword.
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23
The quiver rattles against him,
the flashing spear and the javelin.
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24
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage,
neither does he stand still at the sound of the trum...
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As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’
He smells the battle afar off,
the thunder of the c...
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26
“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars,
and stretches her wings towards the south?
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Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up,
and makes his nest on high?
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28
On the cliff he dwells and makes his home,
on the point of the cliff and the stronghold.
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From there he spies out the prey.
His eyes see it afar off.
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His young ones also suck up blood.
Where the slain are, there he is.”
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