Job 24:5-6, Psa 14:4, Pro 9:17, 20:17, Jer 5:26-28, Eze 22:25-29 | ESV | STEP | Behold , like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil , seeking game ; the wasteland yields food for their children .

Job 24:5-6

5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor ^{▼▼Hebrew they} ^bgo out to their toil, ^cseeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
6 They gather their ^{▼▼Hebrew his} fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.

Psalms 14:4

4 Have they no ^eknowledge, all the evildoers
who ^feat up my people as they eat bread
and ^gdo not call upon the Lord?

Proverbs 9:17

17 ^h“Stolen water is sweet,
and ⁱbread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Proverbs 20:17

17 ^jBread gained by deceit is sweet to a man,
but afterward his mouth will be full of ^kgravel.

Jeremiah 5:26-28

26 For wicked men are found among my people;
^lthey lurk like fowlers lying in wait. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}
ⁿThey set a trap;
they catch men.
27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28 ^othey have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
^pthey judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Ezekiel 22:25-29

25 ^qThe conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is ^rlike a roaring lion ^stearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 ^tHer priests ^uhave done violence to my law and ^vhave profaned my holy things. ^wThey have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and ^xthey have disregarded my Sabbaths, ^yso that I am profaned among them. 27 ^zHer princes in her midst are like wolves ^aatearing the prey, ^abshedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And ^acher prophets have smeared whitewash for them, ^adseeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land ^aehave practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and ^afhave extorted from the sojourner without justice.