“"And the soul of the children has groaned aloud." From the bottom of their heart [they groaned], because they had no parents any longer who provided them with food.”
Olympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 24:9-12
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12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
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10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
— Job 24:12 —
13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.