Job 24:5
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
- ASV
- Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children.
- DARBY
- Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children.
- BLB
- 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.
- ÅB
- Ja, som villesler i ørkenen går de ut til sin gjerning og leter etter føde; ødemarken gir dem brød til barna.
- OTB
- Se, som ville esler i ørkenen
Søker de etter mat i sin virksomhet,
Som næring for sine barn i ørkenen. - B1930
- Ja, som villesler i ørkenen går de ut til sin gjerning og leter efter føde; ødemarken gir dem brød til barna.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
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Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
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The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Read in contextJob 39:5–7
Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
Read in contextActs 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.
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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.
Read in contextGenesis 27:40
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
Read in contextProverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
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