Job 24:5

Behold, like wild asses of the desert, they go forth to their work; They search for prey; The wilderness supplieth them food for their children.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4They push the needy from the way; All the poor of the land are forced to hide themselves.

6In the fields they reap the harvest, And gather the vintage of the oppressor.

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Cross References

Job 5:5His harvest the hungry devour, Carrying it even through the thorns; And a snare gapeth after his substance.

Job 24:14With the light ariseth the murderer; He killeth the poor and needy; In the night he is as a thief.

Psalms 104:23Man goeth forth to his work, And to his labor, until the evening.

Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass, used to the wilderness, That in her desire snuffeth up the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her aside? All that seek her do not weary themselves; In her month they will find her.

Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a solitary wild-ass; Ephraim hireth 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 →

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