Behold, like wild donkeys in the wilderness, the poor go forth in their work, suggesting that the poor, driven from organized society, become like wild animals forced to scavenge in the margins. The comparison to wild donkeys emphasizes the dehumanization that poverty inflicts, reducing the poor to the status of creatures pursuing survival in harsh terrain. The word work here suggests the desperate labor that occupies the poor, the constant effort to extract subsistence from an unforgiving environment. This image transforms Job's social critique into cosmic tragedy: the poor become denaturalized beings, separated from the human community and civilization that should shelter them.

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