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Job 39:5 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? "
Job 39:5
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They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return
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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Job 39:1
"Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?"
Job 39:2
"Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?"
Job 39:3
"They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows."
Job 39:4
"Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return"
Job 39:6
"Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings."
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