3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. 4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. 5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children. 6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked. 7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. 8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. 9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. 10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry. 11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty. 12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Job 24:3–12
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