Job 24:5

God's Word

Like wild donkeys in the desert, poor people go out to do their work, looking for food. The plains provide food for their children.

Cross References

Genesis 16:12

He will be as free and wild as an untamed donkey. He will fight with everyone, and everyone will fight with him. He will have conflicts with all his relatives.”

Genesis 27:40

You will use your sword to live, and you will serve your brother. But eventually you will gain your freedom and break his yoke  off your neck.”

Job 12:6

⌞But⌟ robbers’ tents are prosperous, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whose god is their power.

Job 24:14

At dawn murderers rise; they kill the poor and needy. At night they become thieves.

Job 24:6

They harvest animal food in the field ⌞to feed themselves⌟. They pick the leftover grapes in the wicked person’s vineyard.

Job 5:5

What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat. They take it even from among the thorns, and thirsty people pant after his wealth.

Psalm 104:23

Then people go to do their work, to do their tasks until evening.

Proverbs 4:16

Wicked people cannot sleep unless they do wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild donkey that is used to the desert, sniffing the wind while in heat. All who look for you won’t get tired. They will find you during your monthly period.

Hosea 7:6

They become hot like an oven while they lie in ambush. All night long their anger smolders, but in the morning it burns like a raging fire.

Hosea 8:9

“The people of Israel went to Assyria. They were like wild donkeys wandering off alone. The people of Ephraim sold themselves to their lovers.

Micah 2:1

How horrible it will be for those who invent trouble and work out plans for disaster while in bed. When the morning dawns, they carry out their plans because they are able to.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials are ⌞like⌟ roaring lions. Its judges are ⌞like⌟ wolves in the evening. They leave nothing to gnaw on for the morning.

John 18:28

Early in the morning, Jesus was taken from Caiaphas’ house to the governor’s palace. The Jews wouldn’t go into the palace. They didn’t want to become unclean, since they wanted to eat the Passover.

Acts 23:12

In the morning the Jews formed a conspiracy. They asked God to curse them if they ate or drank anything before they had killed Paul.