Job 24:5
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24:5Like6 wild donkeys in the desert
seeking diligently for food;
the wasteland provides9 food for them
and for their children.
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- 6 The verse begins with הֵן (hen); but the , , and all have “like.” R. Gordis (Job, 265) takes הֵן (hen) as a pronoun “they” and supplies the comparative. The sense of the verse is clear in either case.
- 7 That is, “the poor.”
- 8 The has “in the working/labor of them,” or “when they labor.” Some commentators simply omit these words. Dhorme retains them and moves them to go with עֲרָבָה (’aravah), which he takes to mean “evening”; this gives a clause, “although they work until the evening.” Then, with many others, he takes לוֹ (lo) to be a negative and finishes the verse with “no food for the children.” Others make fewer changes in the text, and as a result do not come out with such a hopeless picture—there is some food found. The point is that they spend their time foraging for food, and they find just enough to survive, but it is a day-long activity. For Job, this shows how unrighteous the administration of the world actually is.
- 9 The verb is not included in the Hebrew text but is supplied in the translation.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor go out to their toil, seeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go about their labor of foraging food;
the wasteland provides food for their children.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Like wild donkeys in the wilderness,
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the desert provides nourishment for their children.
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NLTNew Living Translation
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.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“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.
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KJV 1900King James Version
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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