Job 24:5

Modern English Version

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, rising early for a prey. The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

Cross References

Genesis 16:12

He will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand will be against him. And he will dwell in the presence of all his brothers.”

Genesis 27:40

You will live by your sword and will serve your brother. When you become restless, you will break his yoke from your neck.”

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, into whose hand they bring their own god.

Job 24:14

The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:6

They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Job 5:5

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the thirsty captures his wealth.

Psalm 104:23

Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; their sleep is taken away unless they make someone stumble.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey used to the wilderness that sniffs the wind in her passion. In the time of her heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

Hosea 7:6

For they are kindled like an oven. Their heart burns within them; their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Hosea 8:9

For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. Yet they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Acts 23:12

At daybreak some of the Jews conspired under oath, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.