They are wet with the showers of the mountains, [a]and they embrace the rock for want of a covering.

They pluck the fatherless [b]from the breast, and take the pledge of [c]the poor.

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the gleaning from the hungry.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:8 The poor are driven by the wicked into the rocks and holes where they cannot lie dry for the rain.
  2. Job 24:9 That is, they so powle and pill the poor widow, that she cannot have to sustain herself that she may be able to give her child suck.
  3. Job 24:9 That is, his garment, wherewith he should be covered or clad.

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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