Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Shall the wild ass bray at grass? if the ox will low over his provender?
New American Standard Bible
Or does the ox low over his fodder?
King James Version
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Holman Bible
or an ox low over its fodder?
International Standard Version
"Will the wild donkey bray from hunger if fresh grass is beside him? Will the ox low from distress if it is near its feed?
A Conservative Version
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox moo over his fodder?
American Standard Version
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Amplified
“Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass?
Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Bible in Basic English
Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?
Darby Translation
Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?
King James 2000
Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass? or the ox lows over its fodder?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Does [the] wild ass bray over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder?
Modern King James verseion
Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Doth the wild ass roar when he hath grass? Or crieth the ox, when he hath fodder enough?
NET Bible
"Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?
New Heart English Bible
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
The Emphasized Bible
Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Webster
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
World English Bible
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Youngs Literal Translation
Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
4 For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me. 5 Shall the wild ass bray at grass? if the ox will low over his provender? 6 Shall that unseasoned be eaten without salt? if there is taste in purslain slime?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 42:1
To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.
Psalm 104:14
Causing grass to spring up for the cattle, and the green herb for the service of man, to bring forth bread from the earth:
Jeremiah 14:6
And the wild asses stood upon the naked hills, they panted after the wind as the jackals; their eyes failed because no grass.
Joel 1:18-20
How the beasts groaned! the herds of oxen wept, for no pasture to them; also the flocks of sheep were laid waste.