A moment in scripture
Job 24:9
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- Job 24:10
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
- Job 24:11
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.