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Ass, The Wild

 

Ass, The Wild

Inhabits wild and solitary places - Job 39:6; Isa 32:14; Da 5:21

Ranges the mountains for food - Job 39:8

Brays when hungry - Job 6:5

Suffers in time of scarcity - Jer 14:6

DESCRIBED AS

• Fond of liberty
- Job 39:5
• Intractable
- Job 11:12
• Unsocial
- Ho 8:9

Despises his pursuers - Job 39:7

Supported by God - Ps 104:10,11

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• Intractableness of natural man
- Job 11:12
• The wicked in their pursuit of sin
- Job 24:5
• Israel in their love of idols
- Jer 2:23,24
• The Assyrian power
- Ho 8:9
• The Ishmaelites (Hebrew)
- Ge 16:12
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