⁵ 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.

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

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.