Job 24:5 Parallel Translations

Like wild donkeys in the desert, poor people go out to do their work, looking for food. The plains provide food for their children.(GOD'S WORD®)

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.

ASV:

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

BBE:

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

DBY:

Lo, 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.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

Behold, 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.

WEB:

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.

YLT:

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

Job 24:5 Cross References

XREF:

Job 39:5 "Who sent out the wild donkey free? And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

Psalm 104:23 Man goes forth to his work And to his labor until evening. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

24:5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; {d} rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness {e} [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
(d) That is, spares diligence.
(e) He and his live by robbing and murdering.

WES:

24:5 Wild asses - Which are lawless, and fierce, and greedy of prey. Desert - Which is the proper habitation of wild asses. They - The oppressors. Go - To spoil and rob.

MHC:

24:1-12 Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, God layeth not folly to them; that is, he does not at once send his judgments, nor make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool, Jer 17:11.

CONC:

Activity Asses Behold Betimes Bread Care Desert Diligently Donkeys Early Foraging Forth Labor Mixture Ones Poor Prey Provides Rising Seeking Toil Waste Wasteland Wild Wilderness Yieldeth Yields

Activity Asses Betimes Bread Care Children Desert Diligently Donkeys Early Food Forth Labor Mixture Ones Poor Prey Rising Seeking Toil Waste Wasteland Wild Wilderness Work Yieldeth Yields Young

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