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 has sent forth [the] wild ass free? And who has released [the] wild donkey's bonds,

A wild ass accustomed to [the] desert, in the desire of her soul. She gasps [for] wind [in] her rutting time. Who can quell her [lust]? All [those who] seek her will not grow weary, in her month they will find her.

For they have gone up [to] Assyria, a wild donkey alone to itself; Ephraim has sold itself [for] lovers.

Rising

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.

Because they are kindled like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger {smolders}, [in the] morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.

Her officials in her midst [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they leave nothing until the morning.

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's residence. Now it was early, and they did not enter into the governor's residence so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.

And [when it] was day, the Jews made a conspiracy [and] bound themselves under a curse, saying [they would] neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

The wilderness

whose harvest [the] hungry eats, and he takes it {from behind} [the] thorns; and [the] thirsty pants after their wealth.

[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.

And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand [will be] against everyone, and the hand of everyone [will be] against him, and he will live {in hostility with all his brothers}."

But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be [that] when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.

General references

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.