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Job 24:5
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Job 24:5
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Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
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Job 24:5 in Other Translations
KJV
5
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
ESV
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Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poorgo out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
NLT
5
Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor must spend all their time looking for food, searching even in the desert for food for their children.
MSG
5
The poor, like stray dogs and cats, scavenge for food in back alleys.
CSB
5
Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go out to their task of foraging for food; the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.
Job 24:5 In-Context
3
They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
4
They thrust the needy from the path and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
5
Like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go about their labor of foraging food; the wasteland provides food for their children.
6
They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
7
Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.
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Genesis 16:12
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Psalms 104:23
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Job 30:3
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