Job 39:7

Job 39:7

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5 “Who set the wild donkey free?
Who loosed the bonds of the¹ onager,

6 ^aWhose home I have made the wilderness,
And the¹ barren land his dwelling?

7 He scorns the tumult of the city;
He does not heed the shouts of the driver.

8 The range of the mountains is his pasture,
And he searches after ^aevery green thing.

9 “Will the ^awild ox be willing to serve you?
Will he bed by your manger?

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Barnes' Notes

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He scorneth the multitude of the city - That is, he sets all this at defiance; he is not intimidated by it. He finds his home far away from the city in the wild freedom of the wilderness.

Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver - Margin, "exacter." The Hebrew word properly means a collector of taxes or revenue, and hence, an oppressor, and a driver of cattle. The allusion here is to a driver, and the meaning is, that he is not subject to restraint, but enjoys the most unlimited freedom.

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