Job 24:9

Easy To Read Version

Evil people take a nursing baby from its mother.\par They take a poor person’s child\par as security {\cf2\super [39]} for a loan.\par

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

A man from the group of prophets [22] had a wife. {This man died.} His wife cried out to Elisha, “My husband was like a servant to you. Now my husband is dead! You know he honored the Lord. But he owed money to a man. And now that man is coming to take my two boys and make them his slaves!”

Nehemiah 5:5

\{Look at those rich people!\} We are as good as they are. Our sons are as good as their sons. But we will have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves. Some of us have already had to sell our daughters as slaves! There is nothing we can do! We already lost our fields and vineyards! Other people own them now!”

Job 22:6

Maybe you loaned a brother some money\par and forced him to give you something\par to prove he would pay it back.\par Maybe you took some poor man’s clothes\par as collateral {\cf2\super [34]} for a loan.\par Maybe you did that for no reason.\par

Job 24:10

Poor people have no clothes.\par So they work naked.\par They carry piles of grain for evil people,\par but still they go hungry.\par

Job 24:8

They are soaked with rain\par in the mountains.\par They have nothing to protect them\par from the cold.\par So they huddle close to the large rocks.\par

Job 29:12

Why? Because when the poor person\par cried out for help, I helped.\par And I helped the child that had no parents\par and no one to care for him.\par

Job 6:27

You would even gamble to win things\par that belong to children without fathers.\par You would sell out your own friend.\par

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will give his judgment against the elders {\cf2\super [32]} and leaders for the things they have done.

Deuteronomy 24:7

“A person might kidnap another Israelite—one of his own people. And that kidnapper might sell that person as a slave. If that happens, then that kidnapper must be killed. You must remove that evil from your group.