Job 24:5

Lo! [as] wild asses in the wilderness, they go forth with their work, eager seekers for prey, the waste plain, yieldeth them food for their young;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

6In the field—a man’s fodder, they cut down, and, the vineyard of the lawless, they strip of its late berries;

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Cross References

Genesis 16:12But, he, will be a wild ass of a man, his hand, against every one, and every one’s hand against him—yet, in presence of all his brethren, shall he have his habitation.

Job 5:5Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

Job 24:14With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief.

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

Jeremiah 2:24A wild ass, taught of the desert, In the desire of her soul, she snuffeth the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her back? None who seek her, will weary themselves, In her month, they shall find her!

Hosea 8:9For, they, have gone up to Assyria, A wild ass going alone for himself, is Ephraim! They have 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 →

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