Job 39:5

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

Cross-references

Job 39:10 Parallel

Job 39:10 continues the same theme — asking if a wild donkey can be tamed for plowing, reinforcing its untamable nature.

Job 6:5 Parallel

Job 6:5 also uses the wild donkey — there as a metaphor for complaint, here as a creature God sets free.

In Genesis 16:12, Ishmael is called a 'wild donkey of a man' — the same metaphor for untamed independence used here for the actual animal.

Psalm 104:11 shows God providing water for wild donkeys — the same creatures whose freedom He celebrates here.

Jeremiah 2:24 portrays a wild donkey in heat, unrestrained — echoing the untamable freedom described here.

Hosea 8:9 Allusion

Hosea 8:9 compares Ephraim to a 'wild donkey wandering alone' — the same image of solitary freedom used here.

Jeremiah 14:6 shows wild donkeys suffering in drought — contrasting with the freedom and provision implied here.

Daniel 5:21 Allusion

Daniel 5:21 has Nebuchadnezzar dwelling with wild donkeys — a human humbled to share the animal's wild state.