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They are wet from mountain rains;
    without shelter, they cling to a rock.

“The fatherless are torn from the breast;
    the poor are taken away as security for a loan.[a]
10 They wander around naked, without clothes;
    hungry, though they carry sheaves of grain.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:9 The Heb. lacks for a loan
  2. Job 24:10 The Heb. lacks grain

They are drenched(A) by mountain rains
    and hug(B) the rocks for lack of shelter.(C)
The fatherless(D) child is snatched(E) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized(F) for a debt.(G)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(H)
    they carry the sheaves,(I) but still go hungry.

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