Job 39:7

Translations

Modern

He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

Traditional

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

Literal

He laughs at the tumult of the city; the shouts of the driver he does not hear.

Latin

Contemnit multitudinem civitatis: clamorem exactoris non audit.

Original

Hebrew

English

He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.

Notes

Job 39:5–7

the wild donkey … scorns the tumult of the city: This is the first example in a series of animals that think little of other animals not their equal (compare 39:18, 22; 41:29). These images show how God scorns the opposition of a person like Job (see Psalm 2:4).

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Exodus 5:18
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
Job 3:18
The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Isaiah 31:4
For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
Exodus 5:13–16
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
Job 39:18
Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.
Isaiah 58:3
“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

Glossary

Book of Job Donkey Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Beasts: Unclean: Wild Ass God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To the Wild Donkey: Despises his Pursuers

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