Through want and hard hunger
    they (A)gnaw (B)the dry ground by night in (C)waste and desolation;

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Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
    the poor[a] (A)go out to their toil, (B)seeking game;
    the wasteland yields food for their children.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:5 Hebrew they

38 of whom the world was not worthy—(A)wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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13 “There are those who rebel (A)against the light,
    who are not acquainted with its ways,
    and do not stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises before it is light,
    that he (B)may kill the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for (C)the twilight,
    saying, ‘No (D)eye will see me’;
    and he veils his face.
16 In the dark they (E)dig through houses;
    by day they shut themselves up;
    they do not know the light.

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