Poor people press out olive oil.\par They walk on grapes in the winepress. {\cf2\super [41]} \par But they have nothing to drink.\par
Job 24:10 - Easy To Read Version Poor people have no clothes.\par So they work naked.\par They carry piles of grain for evil people,\par but still they go hungry.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They cause him to go naked without clothing, And they take away the sheaf from the hungry; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So that the needy go about naked for lack of clothing, and though hungry, they must carry [but not eat from] the sheaves. American Standard Version (1901) So that they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves. Common English Bible The poor go around naked, without clothes, carry bundles of grain while hungry, Catholic Public Domain Version From the naked and those who do not have enough clothing, and from the hungry, they have taken away sheaves of grain. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn. |
Poor people press out olive oil.\par They walk on grapes in the winepress. {\cf2\super [41]} \par But they have nothing to drink.\par
Evil people take a nursing baby from its mother.\par They take a poor person’s child\par as security {\cf2\super [39]} for a loan.\par
I always paid the farmers for the food\par that I got from the land.\par And I never tried to take land away from\par the person who owned it.\par
If he is a poor man, {then he might give the clothes that keep him warm}. You must not keep that security overnight.
People worked in your fields, but you did not pay them. Those people are crying out against you. Those people harvested your crops. Now the Lord (God) of heaven’s armies {\cf2\super [24]} has heard the things they are shouting.