Job 24:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 39:5-7 : 5 Who hath sent forth the wild ass free? Yea, the bands of the wild ass who opened? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land, 7 He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.
  • Ps 104:23 : 23 Man goeth forth to his work, And to his service -- till evening.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.
  • Jer 2:24 : 24 A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.
  • Hos 7:6 : 6 For they have drawn near, As an oven `is' their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.
  • Hos 8:9 : 9 For they -- they have gone up `to' Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself `is' Ephraim, They have hired lovers!
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
  • Zeph 3:3 : 3 Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
  • John 18:28 : 28 They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;
  • Acts 23:12 : 12 And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;
  • Gen 16:12 : 12 and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him -- and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.'
  • Gen 27:40 : 40 and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'
  • Job 5:5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
  • Job 12:6 : 6 At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

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    6In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

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    2The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

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    4Safe are their young ones, They grow up in the field, they have gone out, And have not returned to them.

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    6Whose house I have made the wilderness, And his dwellings the barren land,

  • Job 30:3-5
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    3With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

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    4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

    5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • Job 24:9-11
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    9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

    10Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

    11Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.

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    11They water every beast of the field, Wild asses break their thirst.

  • Jer 14:5-6
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    5For even the hind in the field hath brought forth -- to forsake `it!' For there hath been no grass.

    6And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.

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    15They -- they wander for food, If they are not satisfied -- then they murmur.

  • Jer 2:24
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    24A wild ass accustomed to a wilderness, In the desire of her soul she hath swallowed up wind, Her meeting -- who doth turn her back? None seeking her do weary themselves, In her month they find her.

  • Isa 30:6
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    6The burden of the beasts of the south. Into a land of adversity and distress, Of young lion and of old lion, Whence `are' viper and flying saraph, They carry on the shoulder of asses their wealth, And on the hump of camels their treasures, Unto a people not profitable.

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    3Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.

    4Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29Its roaring `is' like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.

  • Isa 30:24
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    24And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.

  • Ps 107:4
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    4They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

  • Prov 24:34
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    34And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

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    9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Ps 109:10
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    10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

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    18How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

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    5Brayeth a wild ass over tender grass? Loweth an ox over his provender?

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    22The sun riseth, they are gathered, And in their dens they crouch.

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    8Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to consume.

    9Wholly for violence it doth come in, Their faces swallowing up the east wind, And it doth gather as the sand a captivity.

  • Lam 4:19
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    19Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

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    7Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

  • Job 39:15
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    15And she forgetteth that a foot may press it, And a beast of the field tread it down.

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    5The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

  • Jer 5:8
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    8Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

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    11They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,

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    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

  • Isa 32:20
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    20Happy `are' ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!

  • Isa 56:9
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    9Every beast of the field, Come to devour, every beast in the forest.

  • Job 38:40
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    40When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?

  • Jer 5:17
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    17And it hath consumed thy harvest and thy bread, They consume thy sons, and thy daughters, It consumeth thy flock, and thy herd, It consumeth thy vine, and thy fig-tree, It maketh poor thy fenced cities, In which thou art trusting -- by the sword.

  • Deut 32:24
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    24Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

  • Prov 6:8
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    8She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

  • Job 15:23
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    23He is wandering for bread -- `Where `is' it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

  • Prov 30:14
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    14A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.

  • Joel 2:3
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    3Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden `is' the land before it, And after it a wilderness -- a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,