Job 24:5

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Summary

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.

Wild asses

Job 39:5

Jeremiah 2:24

Hosea 8:9

Rising

Acts 23:12

The wilderness

General references

Proverbs 4:17

Bible References

Wild asses

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath loosed the bonds of the swift ass,

a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

Rising

The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.

They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

The wilderness

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly .

And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand'shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.

And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother. And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.

General references

For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.