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The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 4

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They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
King James Version
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
American Standard Version
They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
New English Translation
They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
World English Bible
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
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Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
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They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
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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.