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Job 24:6

Justice

4 They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
KJV
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
WEB
They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
ASV
They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
DARBY
They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;
BLB
In the field they gather his fodder, and in the vineyard of the wicked they glean.
ÅB
På marken høster de den ugudeliges fôr, og i hans vingård holder de etterhøst.
OTB
De samler sitt fôr på marken
Og sanker i den urettferdiges vingård.
B1930
På marken høster de den ugudeliges fôr, og i hans vingård holder de efterhøst.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Micah 6:15

    You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

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  • Judges 6:3–6

    Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

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  • Deuteronomy 28:33

    A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:51

    They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

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