5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
5 Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?
5 Donkeys bray and cows moo when they run out of pasture - so don't expect me to keep quiet in this.
5 Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass, Or does the ox low over its fodder?
5 Don't I have a right to complain? Don't wild donkeys bray when they find no grass, and oxen bellow when they have no food?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 6:5
Commentary on Job 6:1-7
(Read Job 6:1-7)
Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is harder to bear than any outward afflictions. What then did the Saviour endure in the garden and on the cross, when he bare our sins, and his soul was made a sacrifice to Divine justice for us! Whatever burden of affliction, in body or estate, God is pleased to lay upon us, we may well submit to it as long as he continues to us the use of our reason, and the peace of our conscience; but if either of these is disturbed, our case is very pitiable. Job reflects upon his friends for their censures. He complains he had nothing offered for his relief, but what was in itself tasteless, loathsome, and burdensome.