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?

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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multitude—rather, "din"; he sets it at defiance, being far away from it in the freedom of the wilderness.

driver—who urges on the tame ass to work. The wild ass is the symbol of uncontrolled freedom in the East; even kings have, therefore, added its name to them.

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