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Job 39:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey, "
Job 39:5
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3 They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.
4 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again.
5 “Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
6 whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?
7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.
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Job 39:1
"“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?"
Job 39:2
"Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?"
Job 39:3
"They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains."
Job 39:4
"Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field. They go out, and don’t return again."
Job 39:6
"whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?"
Job 39:7
"He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver."
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