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The Book of Job, Chapter 24, Verse 9

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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
King James Version
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
American Standard Version
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
New English Translation
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
World English Bible
There are those who 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.
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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.