Job 24:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King 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.

Job 24:9 Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

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.

Nehemiah 5:5

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.

Job 22:6

For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:10

So that they go about naked without clothing, And being an-hungred they carry the sheaves;

Job 24:8

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

Job 6:27

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

Isaiah 3:14

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:

Deuteronomy 24:7

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.