“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.
The range of the mountains is his pasture,
And he searches after (B)every green thing.

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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.
He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
    and he searches after every green thing.

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