Job 24:5
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New International Version (©1984)
Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness They go forth seeking food in their activity, As bread for their children in the desert.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Like wild donkeys in the desert, poor people go out to do their work, looking for food. The plains provide food for their children.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(d) That is, spares diligence.

(e) He and his live by robbing and murdering.

Wesley's Notes

24:5 Wild asses - Which are lawless, and fierce, and greedy of prey. Desert - Which is the proper habitation of wild asses. They - The oppressors. Go - To spoil and rob.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. wild asses-(Job 11:12). So Ishmael is called a "wild ass-man"; Hebrew (Ge 16:12). These Bedouin robbers, with the unbridled wildness of the ass of the desert, go forth thither. Robbery is their lawless "work." The desert, which yields no food to other men, yields food for the robber and his children by the plunder of caravans.

rising betimes-In the East travelling is begun very early, before the heat comes on.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:1-12 Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, God layeth not folly to them; that is, he does not at once send his judgments, nor make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool, Jer 17:11.


Job 39:5 "Who sent out the wild donkey free? And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
Psalm 104:23 Man goes forth to his work And to his labor until evening. (NASB ©1995)

Activity Asses Betimes Bread Care Children Desert Diligently Donkeys Early Food Forth Labor Mixture Ones Poor Prey Rising Seeking Toil Waste Wasteland Wild Wilderness Work Yieldeth Yields Young


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.

wild asses 39:5-7 Jer 2:24 Ho 8:9

rising 14 Pr 4:16 Ho 7:6 Mic 2:1 Zep 3:3 Joh 18:28 Ac 23:12

the wilderness 5:5 12:6 Ge 16:12 27:40

Bible Gateway: Job Chapter 24 Verse 5 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

Alphabetical: about activity as Behold bread children desert donkeys food for foraging forth go in labor Like of poor provides seeking the their They wasteland wild wilderness

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