OLD TESTAMENT

Job 24:5

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Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

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Verse 5. Others. Hebrew “Behold as,” ( Bible.) which may be explained of these oppressors, or rather of the poor, who are forced to flee before them to seek for food. Calmet.—The Vulg. and Septuagint seem more favourable to the former supposition. Bible.

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