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“Who lets the wild donkey roam freely?
Who sets the wild donkey loose from its shackles?
I made the ‘Aravah its home,
the salty desert its place to live.
It scorns the noise of the city
and hears no driver’s shouts.

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“Who let the wild donkey(A) go free?
    Who untied its ropes?
I gave it the wasteland(B) as its home,
    the salt flats(C) as its habitat.(D)
It laughs(E) at the commotion in the town;
    it does not hear a driver’s shout.(F)

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

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

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“Who set the wild donkey free?
Who loosed the bonds of the [a]onager,
(A)Whose home I have made the wilderness,
And the [b]barren land his dwelling?
He scorns the tumult of the city;
He does not heed the shouts of the driver.

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Footnotes

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

“Who has let the wild donkey go free?
    Who has (A)loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
to whom I have given (B)the arid plain for his home
    and (C)the salt land for his dwelling place?
He scorns the tumult of the city;
    he hears not the shouts of the driver.

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