Job 39:4-6

New International Version

⁴Their young thrive and grow strong in the wilds;
they leave and do not return.

⁵“Who let the wild donkey^(A) go free?
Who untied its ropes?
⁶I gave it the wasteland^(B) as its home,
the salt flats^(C) as its habitat.^(D)

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Job 39:4-6

New King James Version

⁴Their young ones are healthy,
They grow strong with grain;
They depart and do not return to them.

⁵“Who set the wild donkey free?
Who loosed the bonds of the ^[a]onager,
⁶^(A)Whose home I have made the wilderness,
And the ^[b]barren land his dwelling?

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Footnotes

Job 39:5 A species of wild donkey
Job 39:6 Lit. salt land

Job 39:4-6

New American Standard Bible

⁴Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field;
They leave and do not return to them.

⁵“Who sent the ^(A)wild donkey out free?
And who opened the bonds of the swift donkey,
⁶To whom I gave ^(B)the wilderness as his home,
And the salt land as his dwelling place?

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