Job 24:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

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  • Job 39:5-7 : 5 Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the wild donkey? 6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling. 7 He mocks the city's throng, nor does he heed the driver's shout.
  • Ps 104:23 : 23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Jer 2:24 : 24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind at her pleasure; in her time who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
  • Hos 7:6 : 6 For they prepare their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
  • Hos 8:9 : 9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment, and it was early. But they themselves did not go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
  • Gen 27:40 : 40 And by your sword you shall live, and shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass, when you shall have the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.
  • Job 12:6 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

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    2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

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    4Their young ones grow strong, they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.

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    6Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwelling.

  • Job 30:3-5
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    3For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste.

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    5They were driven out from among men, they cried after them as after a thief;

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them.

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  • Job 24:9-11
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    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

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    11They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass.

    6And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.

  • Ps 59:15
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    15Let them wander up and down for food, and grumble if they are not satisfied.

  • Jer 2:24
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    24A wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs up the wind at her pleasure; in her time who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  • Isa 30:6
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    6The burden of the beasts of the south: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

  • Isa 30:24
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    24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

  • Ps 107:4
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    4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to live in.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

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    9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

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    10Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

  • Joel 1:18
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    18How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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    22The sun rises, they gather themselves together, and lie down in their dens.

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    8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves; their horsemen spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from afar; they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

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  • Lam 4:19
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    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

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    7Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles they gathered together.

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    15And forgets that a foot may crush them, or that a wild beast may break them.

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    5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

  • Jer 5:8
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    8They were like well-fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

  • Job 21:11
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    11They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

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    20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.

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    9All you beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all you beasts in the forest.

  • Job 38:40
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    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

  • Jer 5:17
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    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

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    8Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

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    14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose jaws are like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them.