Job 24:9

Conservative English Version

Children whose fathers have died are taken from their mothers as payment for a debt.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

One day the widow of one of the LORD's prophets said to Elisha, "You know that before my husband died, he was a follower of yours and a worshiper of the LORD. But he owed a man some money, and now that man is on his way to take my two sons as his slaves."

Nehemiah 5:5

We are Jews just as they are, and our children are as good as theirs. But we still have to sell our children as slaves, and some of our daughters have already been raped. We are completely helpless; our fields and vineyards have even been taken from us."

Job 22:6

To guarantee payment of a debt, you have taken clothes from the poor.

Job 24:10

Then they are forced to work naked in the grain fields because they have no clothes, and they go hungry.

Job 24:8

and during a storm their only shelters are caves among the rocky cliffs.

Job 29:12

When poor people or orphans cried out for help, I came to their rescue.

Job 6:27

Why, you would sell an orphan or your own neighbor!

Isaiah 3:14

He will even judge you rulers and leaders of his own nation. You destroyed his vineyard and filled your houses by robbing the poor.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If you are guilty of kidnapping Israelites and forcing them into slavery, you will be put to death to remove this evil from the community.