Job 24:9 - New Revised Standard Version

⁹ “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast, and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ [The violent men whose wickedness seems unnoticed] pluck the fatherless infants from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], and take [the clothing on] the poor for a pledge,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

Common English Bible

⁹ The orphan is stolen from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as collateral.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

Job 24:9 Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of a member of the company of prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but a creditor has come to take my two children as slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Job 22:6

For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:10

They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;

Job 24:8

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and cling to the rock for want of shelter.

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If someone is caught kidnaping another Israelite, enslaving or selling the Israelite, then that kidnaper shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.