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Job 24

Job 24:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, as wild asses
pere' (Hebrew #6501)
from 6500 in the secondary sense of running wild; the onager
KJV usage: wild (ass).
Pronounce: peh'-reh
Origin: or pereh (Jeremiah 2:24) {peh'-reh}
in the desert
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, go they forth
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
to their work
po`al (Hebrew #6467)
an act or work (concretely)
KJV usage: act, deed, do, getting, maker, work.
Pronounce: po'-al
Origin: from 6466
; rising betimes
shachar (Hebrew #7836)
properly, to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking)
KJV usage: (do something) betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes, seek diligently) early, in the morning).
Pronounce: shaw-khar'
Origin: a primitive root
for a prey
tereph (Hebrew #2964)
something torn, i.e. a fragment, e.g. a fresh leaf, prey, food
KJV usage: leaf, meat, prey, spoil.
Pronounce: teh'-ref
Origin: from 2963
: the wilderness
`arabah (Hebrew #6160)
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.
Pronounce: ar-aw-baw'
Origin: from 6150 (in the sense of sterility)
yieldeth food
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
for them and for their children
na`ar (Hebrew #5288)
(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)
KJV usage: babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).
Pronounce: nah'-ar
Origin: from 5287
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Desert,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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wild asses.
Job 39:5‑7• 5Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
 6Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
 7He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. (Job 39:5‑7)
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Jer. 2:24• 24A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. (Jer. 2:24)
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Hos. 8:9• 9For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (Hos. 8:9)
rising.
Job 24:14• 14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. (Job 24:14)
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Prov. 4:16• 16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. (Prov. 4:16)
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Hos. 7:6• 6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. (Hos. 7:6)
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Mic. 2:1• 1Woe 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. (Mic. 2:1)
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Zeph. 3:3• 3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zeph. 3:3)
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John 18:28• 28Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. (John 18:28)
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Acts 23:12• 12And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. (Acts 23:12)
the wilderness.
Job 5:5• 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. (Job 5:5)
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Job 12:6• 6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. (Job 12:6)
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Gen. 16:12• 12And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. (Gen. 16:12)
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Gen. 27:40• 40And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. (Gen. 27:40)
• Then, in thought, Job follows these poor sufferers driven from their houses by the wicked, and describes their wretched struggle for existence in the nomad state into which they have been thrust (vers. 5-8). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "[and] to the."