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The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 10

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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
King James Version
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
American Standard Version
[ So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
New English Translation
They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.
World English Bible
So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
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They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
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In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.
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He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
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The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.