Job 24:5

WEB

⁵Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

KJV

⁵Behold, 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.

BSB

⁵Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

FBV

⁵Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor have to scavenge for their food, looking for anything to feed their children in the wasteland.

Extra References

Job 5:5

⁵whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Job 39:5-7

⁵“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey, ⁶whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place? ⁷He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the shouting of the driver.

Micah 2:1

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Psalms 104:23

²³Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

Genesis 16:12

¹²He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

Acts 23:12

¹²When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Hosea 7:6

⁶For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Jeremiah 2:24

²⁴a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

Genesis 27:40

⁴⁰You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

Proverbs 4:16

¹⁶For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.