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They drive away the ass of the fatherless;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They thrust the poor off the road;
    the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Behold, like wild asses in the desert
    they go forth to their toil,
seeking prey in the wilderness
    as food[a] for their children.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:5 Heb food to him

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