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The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 5

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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
King James Version
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.
American Standard Version
Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children.
New English Translation
Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.
World English Bible
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread 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.
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.