the Wild Donkey
14 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
14 sections
- Brays when Hungry
- Despises his Pursuers
- Fond of Liberty
- Inhabits Wild and Solitary Places
- Intractable
- Intractableness of Natural Man
- Israel in Their Love of Idols
- Ranges the Mountains for Food
- Suffers in Time of Scarcity
- Supported by God
- The Assyrian Power
- The Ishmaelites (Hebrew)
- The Wicked in Their Pursuit of Sin
- Unsocial
Brays when Hungry
- Job 6:5 Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
Despises his Pursuers
- Job 39:7 He scorns the tumult of the city and never hears the shouts of a driver.
Fond of Liberty
- Job 39:5 Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
Inhabits Wild and Solitary Places
- Job 39:6 I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
- Isaiah 32:14 For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever — the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks —
- Daniel 5:21 He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules …
Intractable
- Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Intractableness of Natural Man
- Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
Israel in Their Love of Idols
- Jeremiah 2:23–24 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there, …
Ranges the Mountains for Food
- Job 39:8 He roams the mountains for pasture, searching for any green thing.
Suffers in Time of Scarcity
- Jeremiah 14:6 Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
Supported by God
- Psalm 104:10–11 He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains. …
The Assyrian Power
- Hosea 8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
The Ishmaelites (Hebrew)
- Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
The Wicked in Their Pursuit of Sin
- Job 24:5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Unsocial
- Hosea 8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.