5 Like wild donkeys in the desert,

the poor go about their labor of foraging food;

the wasteland provides food for their children.

5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert

the poor go out to their toil, seeking game;

the wasteland yields food for their children.

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.

5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness,

the poor must spend all their time looking for food,

searching even in the desert for food for their children.

5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,

They go out to their work, searching for food.

The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

5 The poor become like wild donkeys in the desert

who go about their job of finding food.

The desert gives them food for their children.

5 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.

5 Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children.

5 Like wild donkeys in the desert, 

poor people go out to do their work, looking for food. 

The plains provide food for their children. 

5 Like wild donkeys in the desert,

the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;

the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

5 Like wild asses in the desert

they go out to their toil,

scavenging in the wasteland

food for their young.

5 “Look, like wild donkeys in the desert

they go out to their labor as searchers for the prey;

the wilderness is their food for the young.

5 The poor are like wild donkeys in the desert.

They have to go around looking for food.

The dry and empty land provides the only food for their children.