Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
Cross References
Genesis 16:12He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
Job 24:6They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
Job 39:5Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?
Job 39:6I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.
Psalm 104:23Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
Treasury of Scripture
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
wild asses
Job 39:5-7
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? …
Jeremiah 2:24
A 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.
Hosea 8:9
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
rising
Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Hosea 7:6
For 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.
the wilderness
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Genesis 16:12
And 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.
