Job 24:5 BSB — MannaFest

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Behold, as wild asses in the desert - In regard to the wild ass, see the notes at Job 6:5. Schultens, Good, Noyes, and Wemyss, understand this, not as referring to the haughty tyrants themselves, but to the oppressed and needy wretches whom they had driven from society, and compelled to seek a precarious subsistence, like the wild ass, in the desert. They suppose that the meaning is, that these outcasts go to their daily toil seeking roots and vegetables in the desert for a subsistence, like wild animals.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So Ishmael is called a "wild ass-man"; These Bedouin robbers, with the unbridled wildness of the ass of the desert, go forth thither. Robbery is their lawless "work." The desert, which yields no food to other men, yields food for the robber and his children by the plunder of caravans. rising betimes--In the East travelling is begun very early, before the heat comes on.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֵ֤ן	hen	there!	H2005 →
פְּרָאִ֨ים׀	pe.ra.'Im	wild donkeys	H6501 →
בַּֽמִּדְבָּ֗ר	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
יָצְא֣וּ	ya.tze.'U	they go forth	H3318 →
בְּ֭פָעֳלָם	Be.fo.'o.lom	in work their	H6467 →
מְשַׁחֲרֵ֣י	me.sha.cha.Rei	seeking	H7836 →
לַטָּ֑רֶף	la.Ta.ref	for <the> food	H2964 →
עֲרָבָ֥ה	'a.ra.Vah	a desert plain	H6160 →
ל֥וֹ	lo	to it
לֶ֝֗חֶם	Le.chem	food	H3899 →
לַנְּעָרִֽים׃	la.ne.'a.Rim	for the children	H5288 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
leads to
- Psalms 36:4
  Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
- Isaiah 32:7
  The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
- Psalms 7:14–16
  Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
- Hosea 7:6–7
  For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- Proverbs 6:12–19
  A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
Through
John 18:28
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
leads to
- John 18:33
  Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”
- John 19:9
  and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.
Through
Psalms 104:23
Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
leads to
- Genesis 3:19
  By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Job