Holy Scripture

Job 24:8

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“They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the stones for want of a garment. 'The showers of the mountains' are the words of the learned. Of which same 'mountains' it is delivered by the voice of Holy Church; I lifted up mine eyes unto the hills: and so those persons, 'the showers of the mountains wet…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVI

Source: Septuagint

Original

8They are wet with the drops of the mountains: They have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

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6They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: The poor have labored in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

7They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, And they have taken away the covering of their body.

— Job 24:8 —

9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, And have afflicted the outcast.

10And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, And taken away the morsel of the hungry.

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