Job 24:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 39:5-7 : 5 Who let the wild donkey go free? Who released the bonds of the donkey, 6 to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place? 7 It scorns the tumult in the town; it does not hear the shouts of a driver.
  • Ps 104:23 : 23 Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
  • Jer 2:24 : 24 You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.
  • Hos 7:6 : 6 They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.
  • Hos 8:9 : 9 Israel’s Hired Lovers They have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey that wanders off. Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.
  • John 18:28 : 28 Jesus Brought Before Pilate Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s residence.(Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor’s residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 The Plot to Kill Paul When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”
  • Gen 27:40 : 40 You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”
  • Job 5:5 : 5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
  • Job 12:6 : 6 But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident– who carry their god in their hands.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

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

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    4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

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    9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

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    15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

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    6This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

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    7They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

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