⁵ Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

¹² For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

⁵ Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

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: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

⁶ And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

²⁴ A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

¹⁴ Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;