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They are wet with the mountain rains
And hug the rock for want of a shelter.
[a]Others snatch the (A)orphan from the breast,
And against the afflicted they take a pledge.
10 Those poor ones walk about naked without clothing,
And hungry ones carry the sheaves.

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  1. Job 24:9 Lit They

They are soaked by mountain rains.
    They hug the rocks because they don’t have anything to keep them warm.
Children whose fathers have died
    are torn away from their mothers.
    A poor person’s baby is taken away to pay back what is owed.
10 The poor don’t have any clothes. They go around naked.
    They carry bundles of grain, but they still go hungry.

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