Job 24:5

New Century Version

The poor become like wild donkeys in the desert who go about their job of finding food. The desert gives them food for their children.

Cross References

Genesis 16:12

Ishmael will be like a wild donkey. He will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will attack all his brothers.”

Genesis 27:40

You will live by using your sword, and you will be a slave to your brother. But when you struggle, you will break free from him.”

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are not bothered, and those who make God angry are safe. They have their god in their pocket.

Job 24:14

When the day is over, the murderers get up to kill the poor and needy. At night they go about like thieves.

Job 24:6

They gather hay and straw in the fields and pick up leftover grapes from the vineyard of the wicked.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat his harvest, even taking what grew among the thorns, and thirsty people want his wealth.

Psalm 104:23

Then people go to work and work until evening.

Proverbs 4:16

because they cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they harm someone.

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild donkey that lives in the desert and sniffs the wind at mating time. At that time who can hold her back? Any male who chases her will easily catch her; at mating time, it is easy to find her.

Hosea 7:6

They burn like an oven; their hearts burn inside them. All night long their anger is low, but when morning comes, it becomes a roaring fire.

Hosea 8:9

Israel is like a wild donkey all by itself. They have run to Assyria; They have hired other nations to protect them.

Micah 2:1

How terrible it will be for people who plan wickedness, who lie on their beds and make evil plans. When the morning light comes, they do what they planned, because they have the power to do so.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officers are like roaring lions. Its rulers are like hungry wolves that attack in the evening, and in the morning nothing is left of those they attacked.

John 18:28

Early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas’s house to the Roman governor’s palace. They would not go inside the palace, because they did not want to make themselves unclean; they wanted to eat the Passover meal.

Acts 23:12

In the morning some evil people made a plan to kill Paul, and they took an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed him.