Torrey's Topical Index

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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