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.”
Job 24:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor. More versionsKing 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 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.”
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.”
For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason and stripped the naked of their clothing.
They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.
because I delivered the poor who cried and the orphan who had no helper.
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.
“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.