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Like wild asses in the desert
    they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the waste-land
    food for their young.
They reap in a field not their own
    and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
They lie all night naked, without clothing,
    and have no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the rain of the mountains,
    and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

‘There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast,
    and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
    though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11 between their terraces[a] they press out oil;
    they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:11 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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