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Job 24:5

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Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

Behold, as wild asses {H6501} in the desert {H4057}, go they forth {H3318} to their work {H6467}; rising betimes {H7836} for a prey {H2964}: the wilderness {H6160} yieldeth food {H3899} for them and for their children {H5288}.

like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they have to go out and scavenge food, [hoping that] the desert will provide food for their children.

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wildernessyieldeththem bread for their children.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 104:23 (3 votes)

    Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

  • Job 39:5 (3 votes)

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

  • Job 39:7 (3 votes)

    He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

  • Zephaniah 3:3 (2 votes)

    Her princes within her [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

  • John 18:28 (2 votes)

    ¶ Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

  • Hosea 8:9 (2 votes)

    For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

  • Job 5:5 (2 votes)

    Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.