Job 24:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Common English Bible

drive off an orphan’s donkey, take a widow’s ox as collateral,

Catholic Public Domain Version

They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:3 Cross References

Job 6:27

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

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down,

Deuteronomy 24:6

“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

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.

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me, and I will restore it to you.”