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Read Full Chapter (Job 24) Job 24:9 KJV
"They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor."
Job Chapter 24, Verse 9
Job 24:9 in Context (Verses 6–12 KJV)
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They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.**
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They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.