KJV King James Version
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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Job 24:6
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
WEB World English Bible
They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
ASV American Standard Version
They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.
Surrounding context — Job 24
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
6 They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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Micah 6:15Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.Deuteronomy 28:51And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which [also] shall not leave thee [either] corn, wine, or oil, [or] the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.Judges 6:3-6And [so] it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
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