Job 6:5 meaning and explanation

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

Job 6:5, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering Eliphaz, who has argued that suffering is always discipline for sin and that Job should accept it quietly. Here Job draws on ordinary farm life: animals do not bray or low when they have plenty of fodder, but only when they are hungry.

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