Job 39:5
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5 “Who has let the wild ass go free?
Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,(A)
Job 24:5
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5 Like wild asses in the desert
they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
food for their young.(A)
Job 11:12
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12 But the stupid will get understanding
when a wild ass is born human.[a]
Footnotes
- 11.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Job 6:5
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5 Does the wild ass bray over its grass
or the ox low over its fodder?
Psalm 104:11
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11 giving drink to every wild animal;
the wild asses quench their thirst.(A)
Hosea 8:9
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
a wild ass wandering alone;
Ephraim has bargained for lovers.(A)
Daniel 5:21
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21 He was driven from human society, and his mind was made like that of an animal. His dwelling was with the wild asses, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and sets over it whomever he will.(A)
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Jeremiah 14:6
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6 The wild asses stand on the bare heights;[a]
they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
because there is no herbage.(A)
Footnotes
- 14.6 Or the trails
Jeremiah 2:24
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24 a wild ass at home in the wilderness
in her heat sniffing the wind!
Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
in her month they will find her.(A)
Isaiah 32:14
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14 For the palace will be forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
the joy of wild asses,
a pasture for flocks;(A)
Genesis 49:14
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14 Issachar is a strong donkey,
lying down between the sheepfolds;
Genesis 16:12
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12 He shall be a wild ass of a man,
with his hand against everyone,
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he shall live at odds with all his kin.”(A)
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