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Job 24:6-15 Good News Bible (GNB)

6. They have to harvest fields they don't own,and gather grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.

7. At night they sleep with nothing to cover them,nothing to keep them from the cold.

8. They are drenched by the rain that falls on the mountains,and they huddle beside the rocks for shelter.

9. Evil people make slaves of fatherless infantsand take the children of the poor in payment for debts.

10. But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them;they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.

11. They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine,but they themselves are thirsty.

12. In the cities the wounded and dying cry out,but God ignores their prayers.

13. There are those who reject the light;they don't understand it or go where it leads.

14. At dawn the murderer gets upand goes out to kill the poor,and at night he steals.

15. The adulterer waits for twilight to come;he covers his face so that no one can see him.