Job 24:5

Job chapter 24 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wildernessyieldeththem bread for their children.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wildernessyieldeththem bread for their children.

Context

v.4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

v.5This passage

v.6They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 23:12

    And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

  • Job 39:5

    Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

  • John 18:28

    They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Prætorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Prætorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

  • Zephaniah 3:3

    Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

  • Jeremiah 2:24

    a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  • Job 24:14

    The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.