A moment in scripture
Job 24:5
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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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The surrounding passage
- Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- Job 24:6
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
- Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.