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Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
    the poor[a] (A)go out to their toil, (B)seeking game;
    the wasteland yields food for their children.
They gather their[b] fodder in the field,
    and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
They (C)lie all night naked, without clothing,
    and have no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the rain of the mountains
    and (D)cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
    and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
    hungry, they (E)carry the sheaves;
11 among the olive rows of the wicked[c] they make oil;
    they tread the wine presses, but suffer thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:5 Hebrew they
  2. Job 24:6 Hebrew his
  3. Job 24:11 Hebrew their olive rows