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The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 6

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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.
King James Version
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
American Standard Version
They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
New English Translation
They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
World English Bible
They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard 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.
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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.