Job 24:3

Pledge] i.e. security for debt: cp. Job 22:6; 1 Samuel 12:3.

5-12. This passage depicts the misery of the homeless outcasts from society, driven into the rocks and mountains, unsheltered from the pitiless storms and hard put to it to save themselves and their children from starvation. The outcasts, lean with hunger like the wild ass in the desert, have to search diligently for the poor bits of food on which they keep body and soul together.

5c. Render, 'The Arabah' (the plain W. of Edom near Job's home) 'gives food to their young men.'