The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Wilt thou play with him as {with} a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she {is} the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. {inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress}

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

{It is} in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. {when...: or, when I shall bind them for their two transgressions, or, in their two habitations}

And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. {of the driver: Heb. of the exactor}