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Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor1go out to their toil, 2seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.
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They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
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They 3lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
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They are wet with the rain of the mountains and 4cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
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(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
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They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they 5carry the sheaves;
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among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
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From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of 6the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with 7wrong.
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"There are those who rebel 8against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.
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The murderer rises before it is light, that he 9may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
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The eye of the adulterer also waits for 10the twilight, saying, 'No 11eye will see me'; and he veils his face.