Job 24:5
Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
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- Job 39:5-7 : 5 Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you? 6 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body. 7 Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.
- Ps 104:23 : 23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
- Prov 4:16 : 16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
- Jer 2:24 : 24 An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
- Hos 7:6 : 6 For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
- Hos 8:9 : 9 For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.
- Mic 2:1 : 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
- Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
- John 18:28 : 28 So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
- Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.
- Gen 16:12 : 12 And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
- Gen 27:40 : 40 By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.
- Job 5:5 : 5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
- Job 12:6 : 6 There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.
- Job 24:14 : 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
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4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
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15 Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
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24 An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.
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6 The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.
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3 Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
4 The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
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29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.
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24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
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4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
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34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
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9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
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18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.
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5 Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?
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22 The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.
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8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
9 They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.
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19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
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7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
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15 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
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5 Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
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8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
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11 They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,
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16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
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20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.
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9 All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.
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17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
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24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
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8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
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23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
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14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
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3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.