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[a] They take a nursing baby from its mother.
    They take a poor person’s child to guarantee a loan.
They are soaked with rain in the mountains.
    They stay close to the large rocks for shelter.
10 They have no clothes, so they work naked.
    They carry piles of grain for others, but they go hungry.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:9 In the Hebrew text this verse follows verse 8.

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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