Job 24:5

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

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.

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הֵן hen there H2005 פְּרָאִים pe·ra·'im wild donkeys H6501 בַּמִּדְבָּר ba·mid·bar in the wilderness H4057 יָצְאוּ ya·tze·'u they go forth H3318 בְּפָעֳלָם be·fo·'o·lom in work their H6467 מְשַׁחֲרֵי me·sha·cha·rei seeking H7836 לַטָּרֶף la·ta·ref for (the) food H2964 עֲרָבָה 'a·ra·vah a desert plain H6160 לוֹ lo to it H9033 לֶחֶם le·chem food H3899 לַנְּעָרִים la·ne·'a·rim for the children H5288

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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