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Job 6:5
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
Job 6:5 · World English Bible
Job 6:5 in other translations
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
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In context
2 “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.
4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
8 “Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
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