5 Like wild donkeys in the desert,

the poor go about their labor of foraging food;

the wasteland provides food for their children.

6 They gather fodder in the fields

and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

5 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.

6 They reap every one his corn in the field:

And they gather the vintage of the wicked.

5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness,

the poor must spend all their time looking for food,

searching even in the desert for food for their children.

6 They harvest a field they do not own,

and they glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

5 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.

6 They gather their fodder in the field

And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

5 The poor become like wild donkeys in the desert

who go about their job of finding food.

The desert gives them food for their children.

6 They gather hay and straw in the fields

and pick up leftover grapes from the vineyard of the wicked.

5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert

They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food;

The wilderness yieldeth them bread for their children.

6 They cut their provender in the field;

And they glean the vintage of the wicked.

5 Lo, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness yieldeth them food for their children. 6 They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;

5 Like wild donkeys in the desert, 

poor people go out to do their work, looking for food. 

The plains provide food for their children. 

6 They harvest animal food in the field ⸤to feed themselves⸥. 

They pick the leftover grapes in the wicked person’s vineyard. 

5 Like wild donkeys in the desert,

the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;

the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.

6 They gather their fodder in the field

and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

5 Like wild asses in the desert

they go out to their toil,

scavenging in the wasteland

food for their young.

6 They reap in a field not their own

and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

5 “Look, like wild donkeys in the desert

they go out to their labor as searchers for the prey;

the wilderness is their food for the young.

6 They reap their fodder in the field,

and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

5 The poor are like wild donkeys in the desert.

They have to go around looking for food.

The dry and empty land provides the only food for their children.

6 The poor go to the fields and get a little grain.

They gather up what is left in the vineyards of sinners.

5 “Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness

They go forth seeking food in their activity,

As bread for their children in the desert.

6 “They harvest their fodder in the field

And glean the vineyard of the wicked.