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.
Job 24:9–11
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