Job 24:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, [the poor] go forth to their work, seeking diligently for prey and food; the wilderness yields them bread for their children [in roots and herbage].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

⁵ They are like the wild donkeys in the desert; they go forth at dawn searching for prey; the wasteland is food for their young.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Others, like wild asses in the desert, go forth to their work; by watching for prey, they obtain bread for their children.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 24:5 Cross References

Genesis 16:12

And he shall be as a wild-ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Genesis 27:40

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Job 24:14

The murderer riseth with the light, he killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

Job 24:6

They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Job 5:5

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns, And the snare gapeth for their substance

Psalm 104:23

Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labour until the evening.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Hosea 7:6

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

Hosea 8:9

For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

Micah 2:1

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

John 18:28

They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the palace: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

Acts 23:12

And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.