Like wild donkeys(A) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor(B) of foraging food;
    the wasteland(C) provides food for their children.

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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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Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
They go out to their work, searching for food.
The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

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34 and fruitful land into a salt waste,(A)
    because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

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34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

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34 A (A)fruitful land into [a]barrenness,
For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 107:34 Lit. a salty waste

24 a wild donkey(A) accustomed to the desert,(B)
    sniffing the wind in her craving—
    in her heat who can restrain her?
Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves;
    at mating time they will find her.

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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.

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24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.

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