Job 24:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor: Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [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) There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; Common English Bible The orphan is stolen from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as collateral. Catholic Public Domain Version They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people. |
Now 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 children to be bondmen.
Yet 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 into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.
So that they go about naked without clothing, And being an-hungred they carry the sheaves;
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
The LORD will enter into judgement with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.