KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 24:8–11
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Job 24:8
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
8They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.
Job 24:9
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
9They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.
Job 24:10
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
10They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry,
Job 24:11
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
11 Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 24:8
Covered, soaked, or moistened with water or another liquid.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Falls of rain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To clasp in the arms; to receive, accept, or welcome readily.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lack or need; poverty or deficiency; as a verb, to lack or be without.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 24:9
The front part of the body between the neck and the belly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Lacking material means; needy, afflicted, lowly, or humble, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Job 24:10
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Outside; not within; lacking; free from; or in the absence of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Garments or covering for the body; figuratively, that which covers or invests.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A bundle of cut stalks of grain bound together.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Lean; emaciated, as if reduced by hunger. Having a keen appetite; feeling pain or uneasiness from want of food.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Job 24:11
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
An oily substance used for food, light, anointing, or healing; also to anoint with oil, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Structures enclosing, dividing, or defending a place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To step, walk, press, or trample with the feet.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To bear, undergo, or endure pain, loss, or hardship; also to allow or permit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A strong need or desire for drink; by figure, an intense desire for something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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Open the full verse study38(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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Open the full verse study2¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
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Open the full verse study1NOW there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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Open the full verse study11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
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Open the full verse study19¶ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
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Open the full verse study4¶ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
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