5Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.


In Context

2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.

3 They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.

4 They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

5 Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.

6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.

Job 24:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:5Behold, [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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:5Others like wild asses in the desert go forth to their work: by watching for a prey they get bread for their children.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for meat; the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself — food for young ones.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.