Job 24:5

New English Translation

Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

Cross References

Genesis 16:12

He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

Genesis 27:40

You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

Job 12:6

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

Job 24:14

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:6

They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

Psalm 104:23

Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

Jeremiah 2:24

You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

Hosea 7:6

They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.

Hosea 8:9

They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.

Micah 2:1

Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

John 18:28

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor’s residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

Acts 23:12

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.