Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
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Gill's Exposition
Who hath sent out the wild ass free?.... Into the wide waste, where it is, ranges at pleasure, and is not under the restraint of any; a creature which, as it is naturally wild, is naturally averse to…
Barnes' Notes
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? - For a description of the wild ass, see the notes at Job 11:12. On the meaning of the word rendered “free” (חפשׁי chophshı̂y), see the notes at Isa 58:6. These…
Adam Clarke
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? - פרא pere, which we translate wild ass, is the same as the ονος αγριος of the Greeks, and the onager of the Latins; which must not, says Buffon, be confounded…
God here shows Job what little acquaintance he had with the untamed creatures that run wild in the deserts and live at large, but are the care of the divine Providence. As,
I. The wild goats and the…
The wild ass. Who gave the wild ass his freedom and his indomitable love of liberty who scorns the noise of cities and laughs at the shouts of the driver, which his tame brother obeys? The point of…
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