Job 24:5

"And they have departed," he says, "like asses in the field," that is, they have scorned everybody and have mocked everyone. However, nobody commits any injustice against them and does not ill-treat them.

"They rushed on me in the country, like asses in fury. Fools and rebels, whom their vices make proud, rushed upon me while I confessed your name, that is to say, on the Church. "They were doing their work. It's their job to rush on me; that is to say, they have received from God the mission. "The bread was sweet to him against young people. He calls a sweet bread for the impious and the persecutor, that persecution to which he is more willing when he directs it against the young men. Let us hear here by young people or those who love carnal pleasures, because the youth is more easily abandoned, or those who, in the Church, just out of spiritual childhood, do not yet have this strength virile brave the persecutor.

Others as wild asses in the desert go forth to their work. Watching for a prey, they provide bread for their children. For the 'onager' is a wild ass; and in this place Heretics are rightly likened to 'wild asses,' in that being let loose in their pleasures, they are strange to the fetters of faith and reason. Hence it is written; A wild ass used to the wilderness that snuffeth up the wind of his love at his pleasure. For he is a wild ass used to the wilderness, who whilst he does not cultivate the ground of his heart with excellence of discipline, there dwells, where there is no fruit. Since he 'snuffeth up the wind of his love at his pleasure,' in that the things that from the desire of knowledge he conceives in his mind, are efficacious to puff up but not to edify. Against whom it is said, Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. Hence here too the words are suitably brought in; they go forth to their work. For it is not the work of God, but their own work that they do, whereas they follow not right doctrines, but their own desires. For it is written, He that walketh in a perfect way, he served me. So he that does not walk in a perfect way, serves himself more than the Lord. They 'watch for a prey,' who are always trying to seize the words of the righteous according to their own perception, that by them they may provide the bread of error for evil minded children. Of which some bread it is said in Solomon, in the words of the woman that bears the figure of heretical wickedness, Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.