Job 6:5

In 11 translations

BSB

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

KJV

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?when he…: Heb. at grass?

WEB

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

ASV

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

LSV

Does a wild donkey bray over tender grass? Does an ox low over his provender?

YLT

Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Doeth the wilde asse bray when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe when he hath fodder?

JPS

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

LXXE

What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has fodder?

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WLC

הֲיִֽנְהַק־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי־דֶ֑שֶׁא אִ֥ם יִגְעֶה־שּׁ֝֗וֹר עַל־בְּלִילֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Τί γάρ; μὴ διακενῆς κεκράξεται ὄνος ἄγριος, ἀλλʼ ἢ τὰ σῖτα ζητῶν; εἰ δὲ καὶ ῥήξει φωνὴν βοῦς ἐπὶ φάτνης ἔχων τὰ βρώματα;

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• Joel 1:18–20How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the…
• Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
• Jeremiah 14:6Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
• Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

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