Like wild donkeys in the desert,
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

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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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26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:26 Lit life in it

26 to water(A) a land where no one lives,
    an uninhabited desert,(B)

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24 a wild donkey(A) at home[a] in the wilderness.
She sniffs the wind in the heat of her desire.
Who can control her passion?
All who look for her will not become tired;
they will find her in her mating season.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:24 Lit donkey taught
  2. Jeremiah 2:24 Lit her month

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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