Job 24:5 meaning and explanation

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Job 24:5, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering his friends, arguing that the world does not visibly run on strict rewards and punishments. He pictures the poor as wild donkeys in the desert, animals that survive on scrubland far from fields and towns.

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