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.


In Context

2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

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

6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:5Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food 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 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.