Job 24:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Beholde, as wilde asses in the desert go they foorth to their worke, & ryse betimes to spoyle: Yea the very wildernesse ministreth foode for them & their children.

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  • Job 39:5-7 : 5 Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule? 6 Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling. 7 They force not for the multitude of people in the citie, neither regarde the crying of the driuer:
  • Ps 104:23 : 23 Man goeth foorth to his worke: and to do his seruice vntyll the euening.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.
  • Jer 2:24 : 24 And thy wantonnesse is lyke a wylde Asse that vseth the wildernesse, and that snuffeth and bloweth at her wyll: who can tame her? All they that seeke her, shall not fayle but fynde her in her moneth.
  • Hos 7:6 : 6 For whyles they lye in wayte, they haue made redye their heart lyke an ouen, their baker sleepeth all night, in the morning it burneth as a flambe of fire.
  • Hos 8:9 : 9 For they haue gone vp to Assyria and are as a wilde asse solitarie by him selfe: Ephraim hath hired louers.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo vnto them that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it, because their hande hath power.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her rulers within her are as roaring lions, her iudges are as wolues in the euening, whiche leaue nothing behinde them till the morowe.
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then led they Iesus fro Caiaphas into the hall of iudgement. It was in the mornyng: And they them selues went not into the iudgement hall, leste they shoulde be defyled: but that they myght eate the Passouer.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together, and made a vowe, saying that they woulde neither eate nor drynke, tyl they had kylled Paul.
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 He also wyll be a wylde man, and his hande wyll be agaynst euery man, and euery mans hande against hym: and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
  • Gen 27:40 : 40 And through thy sworde shalt thou liue, and shalt be thy brothers seruaunt: and it shal come to passe, that thou shalt get the maisterie, & thou shalt loose his yoke from of thy necke.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,
  • Job 12:6 : 6 The houses of robbers are in wealth and prosperitie, and they that maliciouslie meddle against God dwell without care, in those thinges that God hath geuen richely with his hande.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murtherer ryseth early and killeth the poore and needy, and in the night is as a thiefe?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 6 They reape the corne fielde that is not their owne, and let the vineyarde of the vngodly alone.

  • Job 24:2-4
    3 verses
    80%

    2 For some men remoue the landemarkes, robbe men of their cattell, and feede of the same:

    3 They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, and take the wydowes oxe for a pledge:

    4 They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.

  • Job 39:4-6
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    77%

    4 Yet their young ones grow vp, and waxe fatte through good feeding with corne: They go foorth, and returne not againe vnto them.

    5 Who letteth the wylde asse to go free? or who looseth the bondes of the wylde mule?

    6 Euen I which haue geuen the wyldernesse to be their house, and the vntilled land to be their dwelling.

  • Job 30:3-5
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    3 For very miserie and hunger they fled into the wildernesse, a darke place, horrible and waste,

    4 Plucking vp nettles among the busshes, and the iuniper rootes for their meate.

    5 And when they were dryuen foorth, men cryed after them as it had ben afafter a thiefe.

  • Job 5:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.

    5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,

  • Job 24:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9 They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore.

    10 They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.

    11 The poore are fayne to labour in their oyle mylles, yea and to treade in their wyne presses, and yet to suffer thirst.

  • 11 All beastes of the fielde drinke therof: and the wylde asses quench their thirst.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    73%

    5 The hynde also forsoke the young fawne that he brought foorth in the fielde, because there was no grasse.

    6 The wylde asses did stande in the hye places, and drewe in their winde lyke the dragons, their eyes did fayle for want of grasse.

  • 15 Let them runne here and there for meate: and go to bed if they be not satisfied.

  • 24 And thy wantonnesse is lyke a wylde Asse that vseth the wildernesse, and that snuffeth and bloweth at her wyll: who can tame her? All they that seeke her, shall not fayle but fynde her in her moneth.

  • 6 The burthen of the beastes of the south. In a land of trouble & anguishe, from whence shall come the young and olde lion, the viper and firie serpent that fleeth against them that vpon coltes beare their riches, and vpon camels their treasures, to a people that can do them no good.

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    72%

    3 The dragons geue their young ones sucke with bare brestes: but the daughter of my people is cruel, like the Estriches in the wildernesse.

    4 The tongues of the sucking chyldren cleaue to the roofe of their mouthes for very thyrst: the young chyldren aske bread, but there is no man that geueth it them.

  • 29 His crye is as it were of a Lion, and he roreth lyke Lions whelpes: they shall roare and hantche vpon the pray, and no man shall recouer it, nor get it from them.

  • 24 The oxen lykewyse and the young asses that eare the grounde shall eate cleane prouender, whiche is purged with the winde and the fanne.

  • 4 They went astray out of the way in solitarines and in wildernes, and found no citie to dwell in:

  • 34 So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie lyke a weaponed man.

  • 9 We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.

  • 10 Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke foode out of their barren groundes.

  • 18 O howe cattell mourne? the heardes of beastes are in wofull case for lacke of pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed?

  • 5 Doth the wild asse rore when he hath grasse? or loweth the oxe when he hath fodder inough

  • 22 When the sunne ariseth, they recoyle backe: and lay them downe to rest in their dennes.

  • Hab 1:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 Their horses also are swifter then the leopardes, and are more fierce then the wolues in the euening, and their horsemen shall come from farre: they shall flee as the Egle hasting to meate.

    9 They come all to spoyle: before their faces shalbe an eastwinde, and they shall gather the captiuitie as the sande.

  • 19 Our persecutours are swifter then the Egles of the ayre: they folowed vppon vs ouer the mountaynes, and layde wayte for vs in the wyldernesse.

  • 7 Among the busshes went they about crying, and vnder the thornes they gathered them selues together.

  • 15 She remembreth not that they might be troden with feete, or broken with some wilde beaste.

  • 5 They that were full, haue hyred out them selues for bread, and they that were hungry, ceasse, tyll the barren hath borne seuen, and she that had many children, is waxed feeble.

  • 8 In the desire of vncleanly lust they are become lyke the stoned horse, euery man neyeth at his neighbours wife.

  • 11 They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes leade the daunce.

  • 16 In the darke they digge through houses, whiche they marked for them selues in the day time: they knowe not the light.

  • 20 O howe happy shall ye be when ye shall safely sowe your seede beside all waters, and dryue thyther the feete of your oxen and asses.

  • 9 Come all ye beastes of the fielde, that ye may deuoure all the beastes of the wood.

  • 40 When they couche in their places, and tarie in the couert to lye in wayte?

  • 17 This people shall eate vp thy fruite and thy meate, yea they shall deuour thy sonnes & thy daughters, thy sheepe and thy bullockes, they shall eate vp thy grapes and figges: As for thy strong and well defensed cities wherin thou didst trust, they shall bryng to pouertie, and that through the sworde.

  • 24 They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I wyll also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the furiousnesse of serpentes in the dust.

  • 8 Yet in the sommer she prouideth her meate, and gathereth her foode together in the haruest.

  • 23 He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande.

  • 14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as knyues, to deuour the poore from of the earth, & the needy from among men.

  • 3 Before him is a deuouryng fire, and behynde him a burnyng flambe: the lande is as a pleasaunt garden before him, and behinde him a waste desert, yea and nothyng shall escape him.