Job 24:5
Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4They have overturned the way of the poor, and have oppressed together the meek of the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.
Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
Job 24:14The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.
Psalms 104:23Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.
Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass accustomed to the wilderness in the desire of his heart, snuffed up the wind of his love: none shall turn her away: all that seek her shall not fail: in her monthly filth they shall find her.
Hosea 8:9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his 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 →