“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)

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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.

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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?

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Footnotes

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

11 They give water(A) to all the beasts of the field;
    the wild donkeys(B) quench their thirst.

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11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

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11 They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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24 a wild donkey(A) accustomed to the desert,(B)
    sniffing the wind in her craving—
    in her heat who can restrain her?
Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves;
    at mating time they will find her.

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24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

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24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.

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