Verse 5
Job 24:5
King James Version
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֵ֤ן פְּרָאִ֨ים בַּֽ/מִּדְבָּ֗ר יָצְא֣וּ בְּ֭/פָעֳלָ/ם מְשַׁחֲרֵ֣י לַ/טָּ֑רֶף עֲרָבָ֥ה ל֥/וֹ לֶ֝֗חֶם לַ/נְּעָרִֽים
English Translation
Behold, wild donkeys went out into the wilderness, acting as they pleased, seeking their food for the young men.
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Chapter 24 Context
1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed
thereof.
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3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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5
Behold,
as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wil...
6
They reap
every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
they have
no covering in the cold.
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8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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10
They cause
him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf
from the hungry;
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11
Which make oil within their walls,
and tread
their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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12
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God (Elohim) layeth not...
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13
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the pat...
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14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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15
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth...
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16
In the dark they dig through houses,
which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know...
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17
For the morning
is to them even as the shadow of death: if
one know
them, they are in the terrors of...
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18
He
is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vin...
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19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters:
so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
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20
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and w...
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21
He evil entreateth the barren that
beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
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22
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no
man is sure of life.
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23
Though it be given him
to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes
are upon their ways.
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24
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as...
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25
And if
it be not
so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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