Job 24
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Job 24:2-11

2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

5Like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor, seeking diligently for food; the wasteland provides food for them and for their children.

6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

7They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

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