Verse 10
10. (See on :-). In Job 24:7 a like sin is alluded to: but there he implies open robbery of garments in the desert; here, the more refined robbery in civilized life, under the name of a "pledge." Having stripped the poor, they make them besides labor in their harvest-fields and do not allow them to satisfy their hunger with any of the very corn which they carry to the heap. Worse treatment than that of the ox, according to Job 24:7- :. Translate: "they (the poor laborers) hungering carry the sheaves" [UMBREIT].
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