Job 6:5

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

Cross-references

Job 30:7 Allusion

Job 30:7 uses the same rare word 'bray' for outcasts making animal cries—a verbal echo linking Job’s braying to the desperate condition of the marginalized.

Jeremiah 14:6 explicitly describes wild donkeys with no vegetation, confirming the scenario in Job's rhetorical question.

Joel 1:18-20 depicts beasts groaning for lack of pasture, matching Job's point that animals complain when deprived.