Job 24:5
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.
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4The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
Job 5:5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
Job 24:14He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
Psalms 104:23Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
Jeremiah 2:24An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13
Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 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. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →