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    spend the night naked, unclothed,
        in the cold without a cover,
    wet from mountain rains,
        with no refuge, huddled against a rock.
The orphan is stolen from the breast;
    the infant[a] of the poor is taken as collateral.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:9 Reading Heb we‘ul (infant) for we‘al (against)

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