English Standard Version
Job 24:5
5Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
Job 24:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, They go out to their work, searching for food. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children.
Context of Job 24:5
3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves. Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children. 6They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man. 7They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Read all of Job 24Job 24:5 word by word
הֵ֤ן פְּרָאִ֨ים׀ בַּֽמִּדְבָּ֗ר יָצְא֣וּ בְּ֭פָעֳלָם מְשַׁחֲרֵ֣י לַטָּ֑רֶף עֲרָבָ֥ה ל֥וֹ לֶ֝֗חֶם לַנְּעָרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- wild assesפֶּ֫רֶאpere' pereh · wild donkeyH6501
- in the desertמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
- go they forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: comeH3318
- to their workפֹּ֫עַלpô‛al · workH6467
- rising betimesשָׁחַרshâchar · to seekH7836
- for a preyטֶ֫רֶףţereph · preyH2964
- the wildernessעֲרָבָה‛ărâbâh · plainH6160
- foodלֶ֫חֶםlechem · foodH3899
- childrenנַ֫עַרna‛ar · youthH5288
Cross-references for Job 24:5
- Job 39:5"Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
- Jeremiah 2:24a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
- Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.
- Job 24:14The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
- Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
- Hosea 7:6For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Zephaniah 3:3Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.
- John 18:28Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.
- Acts 23:12When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
- Job 5:5The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
- Genesis 16:12He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."
- Genesis 27:40By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck."
Commentaries on Job 24:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Rising betimes for a prey - The general sense here seems plain enough. There are some who live a lawless roaming life: make a predatory life their employment; for this purpose, frequent the wilderness, where they seize on and appropriate whatsoever they find, and by this method they and their families are supported. Mr. Good says: "The sense has never yet been understood by any commentator;" and hence he proposes a different division of the words, placing…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Behold, as wild asses in the desert - In regard to the wild ass, see the notes at Job 6:5. Schultens, Good, Noyes, and Wemyss, understand this, not as referring to the haughty tyrants themselves, but to the oppressed and needy wretches whom they had driven from society, and compelled to seek a precarious subsistence, like the wild ass, in the desert. They suppose that the meaning is, that these outcasts go to their daily toil seeking roots and vegetables…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-17This list of criminal behaviors first emphasizes crimes against weak people (24:2–12). Then it examines the criminals themselves (24:13–17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-242-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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