Job 24:2-12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 The wicked[a] remove landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.(A)
3 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(B)
4 They thrust the needy off the road;
the poor of the earth all hide themselves.(C)
5 Like wild asses in the desert
they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
food for their young.(D)
6 They reap in a field not their own,
and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.(E)
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and cling to the rock for want of shelter.(F)
9 “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.(G)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
11 between their terraces[b] they press out oil;
they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.
12 From the city the dying groan,
and the throat of the wounded cries for help;
yet God pays no attention to their prayer.(H)
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