Job 6:5
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New International Version (©1984)
Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Does the wild donkey bray over his grass, Or does the ox low over his fodder?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Does a wild donkey bray when it's [eating] grass, or does an ox make a sound over its hay?

King James Bible
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

American King James Version
Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? or lows the ox over his fodder?

American Standard Version
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox 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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?

Darby Bible Translation
Doth the wild ass bray by the grass? loweth an ox over his fodder?

English Revised Version
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

Young's Literal Translation
Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

Geneva Study Bible

Doth the {d} wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

(d) Do you think that I cry without cause, seeing the brute beasts do not complain when they have what they want.

Wesley's Notes

6:5 Doth, and c. - Even the brute beasts, when they have convenient food, are quiet and contented. So it is no wonder that you complain not, who live in ease and prosperity, any more than I did, when I wanted nothing.

King James Translators' Notes

when he...: Heb. at grass?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. Neither wild animals, as the wild ass, nor tame, as the ox, are dissatisfied when well-supplied with food. The braying of the one and the lowing of the other prove distress and want of palatable food. So, Job argues, if he complains, it is not without cause; namely, his pains, which are, as it were, disgusting food, which God feeds him with (end of Job 6:7). But he should have remembered a rational being should evince a better spirit than the brute.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-7 Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is harder to bear than any outward afflictions. What then did the Saviour endure in the garden and on the cross, when he bare our sins, and his soul was made a sacrifice to Divine justice for us! Whatever burden of affliction, in body or estate, God is pleased to lay upon us, we may well submit to it as long as he continues to us the use of our reason, and the peace of our conscience; but if either of these is disturbed, our case is very pitiable. Job reflects upon his friends for their censures. He complains he had nothing offered for his relief, but what was in itself tasteless, loathsome, and burdensome.


Job 39:5 "Who sent out the wild donkey free? And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey, (NASB ©1995)

Ass Bellow Bray Donkey Fields Fodder Food Grass Low Ox Provender Sounds Tender Voice Wild


Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

when he hath grass. Heb. at grass. Ps 104:14

loweth. Ps 42:1 Jer 14:6 Joe 1:18-20

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