Job 24:5
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. 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.
Job 24:5 stands in chapters 22-24, in the middle of Job's last reply after his friends had ceased troubling him with constant accusations, both implied and open. It belongs to his description in chapter 24 of wicked men who remove landmarks, violently take away flocks and feed on them, drive away the fatherless's donkey, and take the widow's ox for a pledge. These same men turn the needy out of the way.
Job sets that wicked conduct in contrast with his own life, insisting he had not acted that way. He had delivered the crying poor, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him, had caused the widow's heart to rejoice and sing for joy, and had been eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and a father to the poor. The passage is part of his defense against his friends' charges, a complete justification of himself and vindication of his own self-righteousness resting on his upright outward dealing with others.