Job 39:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 39:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? - For a description of the wild ass, see the notes at Job 11:12 . On the meaning of the word rendered “free” ( חפשׁי chophshı̂y ), see the notes at Isaiah...

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• Job 39:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ass. Probably. mule.

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• Job 39:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Who hath sent out the wild ass free? - פרא pere, which we translate wild ass, is the same as the ονος αγριος of the...

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• Job 39:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Wild ass. Two different Hebrew words are here used for the same animal, the donkey of the woods х pere'...

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• Job 39:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty (concluded) Chs. Job 38:39-41 and Job 38:39 depict the wonders of animate creation, and the instincts with which animals are gifted by the providence of God. I...

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• Job 39:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job make...

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• Job 39:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Knowest Thou?” “Canst Thou?” Job 39:1-30 The series of questions is continued, and God asks more especially with respect to animated and organic nature. The wild goats, Job 39:1-4 ; the wild...

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• Job 39:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  And still the unveiling goes forward: the mystery of the begetting and birth of lower animals, with the sorrows of travail, and the finding of strength; the freedom and wildness and splendid untameab...

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• Job 39:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (5) Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? (6) Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. (7) He scorneth the multitude of...

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• Job 39:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free ?.... Into the wide waste, where it is, ranges at pleasure, and is not under the restraint of any; a creature which, as it is naturally wild, is naturally averse...

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• Job 39:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Ver. 5. Who hath sent out the wild ass free? ] פרא Phere, ferum animal (so Tremellius rendereth it), the wild c...

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• Job 39:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Who hath given him this disposition, that he loves freedom, and hates that subjection which other creatures quietly endure. Compare Job 11:12 ; Hosea 8:9 ; in...

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• Job 39:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE WILD GOATS AND THE DEER (vv.1-4) The Lord now turns Job's attention to animals not in the least aggressive, the wild goats and the deer. Indeed, rather than aggressive, they are elusive. Did...

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• Job 39:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Man's Ignorance of the Animal Creation; Description of the Wild Goat, Hind, Wild Ass, and Unicorn. B. C.  1520....

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• Job 39:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? who hath given him this disposition, that he loves freedom, and avoids and hates that subjection which other creatures quietly and contentedly endure? Who hath...

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• Job 39:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 39:13 . “ Gatest thou the goodly wings unto the peacock, or wings and feathers into the ostrich? ” (MARGIN: “The feathers of the stork and ostrich.”) The whole verse very variously rend...

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• Job 39:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 39:1 . The wild goat, on the Arabian rocks, leaps with incredible celerity from rock to rock, and leaves the dogs and wolves behind. She hides her young in those retreats. They follow the laws...

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• Job 39:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 39:1-18 This chapter completes the survey of animate nature begun at Job 38:39 . The habits and instincts of the wild goat, the wild ass, and wild cattle are first noticed (...

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• Job 39:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 1. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth, their homes being on the rocks near the summits of the mountains? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve, noting the t...

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• Job 39:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 5:21 ; Genesis 16:12 ; Genesis 49:14 ; Hosea 8:9 ; Isaiah 32:14 ; Jeremiah 14:6 ; Jeremiah 2:24 ; Job 11:12 ; Job 24:5 ; Job 6:5 ; Psalms 104:11

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• Job 39:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Sent — Who hath given him this disposition that he loves freedom, and hates that subjection which other creatures quietly endure? Loosed — Who keeps him from receiving the bands, and submitting to...

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