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Job 24:5-15 Modern English Version (MEV)

5. Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert,they go out to their work, rising early for a prey.The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

6. They gather their fodder in the field,and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing,and they have no covering in the cold.

8. They are wet with the showers of the mountainsand embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

9. They snatch the fatherless from the breastand take a pledge from the poor.

10. They cause him to go naked without clothing,and they take away the sheaf from the hungry.

11. They press out oil within their wallsand tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

12. Men groan from outside the city,and the soul of the wounded cries out;yet God does not charge them with wrong.

13. “They are those who rebel against the light;they do not know its waysnor abide in its paths.

14. The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy,and in the night he is like a thief.

15. Also the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,saying, ‘No eye will see me’;and he disguises his face.

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