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    wet from mountain rains,
        with no refuge, huddled against a rock.
The orphan is stolen from the breast;
    the infant[a] of the poor is taken as collateral.
10 The poor go around naked, without clothes,
    carry bundles of grain while hungry,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:9 Reading Heb we‘ul (infant) for we‘al (against)

They are drenched(A) by mountain rains
    and hug(B) the rocks for lack of shelter.(C)
The fatherless(D) child is snatched(E) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized(F) for a debt.(G)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(H)
    they carry the sheaves,(I) but still go hungry.

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