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Job 39:5

Job chapter 39 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

Context

v.4Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.

v.5This passage

v.6Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 11:12

    But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.

  • Hosea 8:9

    For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

  • Job 24:5

    Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wildernessyieldeththem bread for their children.

  • Psalms 104:11

    They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild asses quench their thirst.

  • Daniel 5:21

    and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts’, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will.

  • Genesis 16:12

    And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.