Job 24:5

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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.

Literal

Behold, wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth in their work of searching for food; the Arabah gives food for them and for the young.

Latin

Alii quasi onagri in deserto egrediuntur ad opus suum: vigilantes ad prædam, præparant panem liberis.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 24:2–17

This list of criminal behaviors first emphasizes crimes against weak people (24:2–12). Then it examines the criminals themselves (24:13–17).

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Psalm 104:23
Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Job 39:5–7
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Hosea 7:6
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
John 18:28
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
Job 24:14
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Acts 23:12
When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Proverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

Glossary

Book of Job Desert Donkey Orphan

Topics

Animals: Homes of Creditors: Often Cruel in Exacting Debts Dishonesty: General Scriptures Concerning Donkey: Wild God: Providence of, Mysterious and Misinterpreted Herbs: Found in The Deserts Homicide: Felonious, or Murder The Poor: The Wicked: Oppress the Wild Donkey: The Wicked in Their Pursuit of Sin Wicked (People): Described Wicked (People): Temporal Punishment of

Job 24:5

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