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“The wicked snatch fatherless children from their mother’s breasts, and take a poor man’s baby as a pledge before they will loan him any money or grain. 10 That is why they must go about naked, without clothing, and are forced to carry food while they are starving. 11 They are forced to press out the olive oil without tasting it and to tread out the grape juice as they suffer from thirst.

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The fatherless(A) child is snatched(B) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized(C) for a debt.(D)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(E)
    they carry the sheaves,(F) but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives among the terraces[a];
    they tread the winepresses,(G) yet suffer thirst.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.