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Job 24:7-19 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

7. They spend the night naked, without clothing, and they have no garment in the cold.

8. They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock without refuge.

9. “They snatch the orphan from the breast, and they take a pledge against the needy.

10. They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves.

11. Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the presses, but they are thirsty.

12. From the city people groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not regard it as unseemly.

13. “Those are among the ones rebelling against the light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

14. At dusk the murderer rises; he kills the needy and the poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

15. And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk, saying, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he places a covering on his face.

16. He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in— they do not know the light

17. because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness.

18. “He himself is swift on the water’s surface; their portion is cursed in the land. No one turns toward the path of their vineyards.

19. Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away those who have sinned.

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