The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.[a]
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked.
They carry sheaves but go hungry.(A)
11 They crush olives in their presses;[b]
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:9 Text emended; MT reads breast; they seize collateral against the poor
  2. Job 24:11 Lit olives between their rows

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