Job 6:5

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles .

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

who gives food to every creature; for his loving kindness endures forever.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

From now on, when you till the ground, it won’t yield its strength to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”

the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent. Their fathers had been over Yahweh’s camp, keepers of the entry.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

“See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.