OLD TESTAMENT

Job 24:6

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They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

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Verse 6. Not, is omitted by the Prot. Bible.—Hebrew “they reap in the field food for the cattle.” Calmet.—His. Hebrew “the wicked man’s vineyard.” Bible.—They do not examine whether the person whom they plunder be just or not. Calmet.—Septuagint “they have reaped before the season the field which was not theirs. But the poor (helpless men) have laboured in the vineyards of the wicked without wages or meat.” Bible.

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