Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
New American Standard Bible
And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
King James Version
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Holman Bible
Who released the swift donkey from its harness?
International Standard Version
"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey
A Conservative Version
Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey
American Standard Version
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
Amplified
“Who sent out the wild donkey free [from dependence on man]?
And who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey [to survive in the wild],
Bible in Basic English
Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?
Julia Smith Translation
Who sent the wild ass free? and who opened the bonds of the wild ass?
King James 2000
Who has let the wild donkey go free? or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Who has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,
Modern King James verseion
Who has sent out the wild ass free? Or who has loosed the bands of the wild ass,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who letteth the wild ass go free, or who looseth the bonds of the mule?
NET Bible
Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey,
New Heart English Bible
"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
The Emphasized Bible
Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed?
Webster
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
World English Bible
"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
Youngs Literal Translation
Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened?
Interlinear
Shalach
Pathach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 39:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wild Donkey
4 Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them. 5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager, 6 Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
Names
Cross References
Job 6:5
Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?
Job 11:12
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
Job 24:5
Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.
Psalm 104:11
They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst.
Genesis 16:12
And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.
Genesis 49:14
Issachar is a bony ass, Crouching down between two hurdles.
Isaiah 32:14
For the palace shall be deserted, the multitude of the city shall be forsaken; hill and watchtower shall be caves for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Jeremiah 2:24
a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Jeremiah 14:6
And the wild asses stand on the heights, they snuff up the wind like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
Daniel 5:21
and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.