John Trapp on Job 39:7

Verſe 7. He ſcorneth the multitude of the City] Heb. He laugheth. Inſignis Metaphora. He would ſcorn to be ſet to work, as the tame Aſſe is. Aſinum oneramus & non curat, quia aſinus eſt, ſaith Bernard, We load the Aſſe, and he taketh it well aworth; becauſe he is an Aſſe. But the wild-Aſſe will not take ſo: he is not a beaſt born to bear burdens as the other. He is not tardum & pigrum animal; as the other, a dull and ſlow creature: for which cauſe alſo, ſaith Bellarmine; God would none of him, Exod. 13.13. & 34.20. Chriſt ſo far hateth dulneſſe, that he bad Judas the traytour, what he did, do quickly. The wild-Aſſe is very ſwift, and fed by Gods providence in the wilderneſſe; ſcorning the multitude, or the hurry-noiſe of the City.

Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver] Heb. Of the Exactour, who rateth and rageth againſt the tame Aſſe with words and blowes, to haſten him to his work, and to bring him this way, and that way. Oppreſſive Princes do the like to their poor ſubjects, (the King of France is called, Rex aſinorum) which ſomtimes maketh them turn wild,Joſeph. l. 18. c. 2. and ſhake off ſubjection; as the Jewes did that to the Romans, chuſing rather to ſuffer the moſt exquiſite torments, than to be enſlaved. But what a mad conceit was that of Martin Stembach, a Dutch Sectary, Anno 1566. who would needs correct the Lords Prayer, Stultam & inefficacem aſſerens orationem in qua interjectione ô uteremur: non ſecus enim hac exclamandi formulà divinam gratiam impediri,Lonicer. ex Theatro vitae. quam aſinarii, aſinorum impetum hoc adverbio?