Job 24:5

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Cross References (15)

  • Job 5:5 (3)

    The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

  • Psalms 104:23 (3)

    Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.

  • Micah 2:1 (3)

    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is

  • Job 39:5–7 (3)

    Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

  • Hosea 8:9 (2)

    For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.

  • Acts 23:12 (2)

    When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had ki

  • Proverbs 4:16 (2)

    For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

  • Job 12:6 (2)

    The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

  • Genesis 16:12 (2)

    He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live

  • Jeremiah 2:24 (2)

    a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All

  • Genesis 27:40 (2)

    You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

  • Zephaniah 3:3 (2)

    Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.

  • John 18:28 (2)

    Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the

  • Hosea 7:6 (2)

    For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blaz

  • Job 24:14 (2)

    When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.