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Job 24:5-12 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

5. in the desert,where they and their childrenmust live like wild donkeysand search for food.

6. If they want grain or grapes,they must go to the propertyof these sinners.

7. They sleep naked in the cold,because they have no cover,

8. and during a stormtheir only shelters are cavesamong the rocky cliffs.

9. Children whose fathers have diedare taken from their mothersas payment for a debt.

10. Then they are forced to worknaked in the grain fieldsbecause they have no clothes,and they go hungry.

11. They crush olives to make oiland grapes to make wine—but still they go thirsty.

12. And along the city streets,the wounded and dying cry out,yet God does nothing.

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