Job 24:5
Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Job 5:5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Job 24:14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Psalms 104:23Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired 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 →