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Job 24:9

Verse 9 of 25. The 24th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

6They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

7They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

10so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

13“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.