The Meaning of Job 6:5 Explained

Job 6:5

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

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

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

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

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:5?

MEANING: What does Job 6:5 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:5 mean?

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What is the context of Job 6:5?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:5 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"

The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.

Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.

From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

¹ Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
⁸ He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
¹⁴ He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:5 mean?

Does bray the wild donkey when it has grass Or does low the ox over its fodder

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

הֲיִֽנְהַק־	Does bray
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: נָהַק Sense: (Qal) to bray, cry, cry out.
פֶּ֥רֶא	the wild donkey
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: פֶּרֶא Sense: wild ass.
؟ דֶ֑שֶׁא	it has grass
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: דֶּשֶׁא Sense: grass, new grass, green herb, vegetation, young.
יִגְעֶה־	does low
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: גָּעָה Sense: (Qal) to low, bellow (of cattle).
שּׁ֝֗וֹר	the ox
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: שֹׁור Sense: ox, bull, a head of cattle.
עַל־	over
Parse: Preposition Root: עַל Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
؟ בְּלִילֽוֹ	its fodder
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular Root: בְּלִיל Sense: fodder.

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