Job 24:5
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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.
6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in 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 them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Read in contextJob 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Read in contextJob 39:5–7
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Read in contextActs 23:12
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Read in contextHosea 7:6
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Read in contextGenesis 27:40
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Read in contextProverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
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