“If (A)thieves came to you,
If [a]robbers by night—
Oh how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only [b]until they had enough?
If grape-pickers came to you,
(B)Would they not leave some gleanings?

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:5 Lit devastators of the night
  2. Obadiah 1:5 Lit their sufficiency

“If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?(A)

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If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

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