Ass, the Wild

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Genesis 16:12Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The Ishmaelites (Hebrew)

  And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

• Job 6:5Torrey Brays when hungry

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

• Job 11:12Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Intractable

  For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

• Job 24:5Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The wicked in their pursuit of sin

  Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

• Job 39:5Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Fond of liberty

  Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

• Job 39:6Torrey Inhabits wild and solitary places

  Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

• Job 39:7Torrey Despises his pursuers

  He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

• Job 39:8Torrey Ranges the mountains for food

  The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

• Psalms 104:10Torrey Supported by God

  He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

• Psalms 104:11Torrey Supported by God

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

• Isaiah 32:14Torrey Inhabits wild and solitary places

  Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

• Jeremiah 2:23Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — Israel in their love of idols

  How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;