Job 24:5

New International Version

Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.

Cross References

Genesis 16:12

He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

Genesis 27:40

You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

Job 12:6

The tents of marauders are undisturbed, and those who provoke God are secure— those God has in his hand.

Job 24:14

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.

Job 24:6

They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

Job 5:5

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Psalm 104:23

Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey accustomed to the desert, sniffing the wind in her craving— in her heat who can restrain her? Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves; at mating time they will find her.

Hosea 7:6

Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion 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 wandering alone. Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.

John 18:28

Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.

Acts 23:12

The next morning some Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.