Job 24:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge 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.

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 Eli´sha, 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 sons 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 redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Job 22:6

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:10

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

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, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Job 6:27

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye 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 maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.