Job 24:6-16 (New International Version)
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They gather fodder1 in the fields and glean in the vineyards2 of the wicked.3
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Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.4
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They are drenched5 by mountain rains and hug6 the rocks for lack of shelter.7
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The fatherless8 child is snatched9 from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized10 for a debt.11
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Lacking clothes, they go about naked;12 they carry the sheaves,13 but still go hungry.
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They crush olives among the terracesa; they tread the winepresses,14 yet suffer thirst.15
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The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.16 But God charges no one with wrongdoing.17
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"There are those who rebel against the light,18 who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.19
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When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up and kills20 the poor and needy;21 in the night he steals forth like a thief.22
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The eye of the adulterer23 watches for dusk;24 he thinks, 'No eye will see me,'25 and he keeps his face concealed.
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In the dark, men break into houses,26 but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.27
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