Job 24:9

English Standard Version 2016

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.

Job 22:6

For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:8

They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

Job 24:10

They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;

Job 29:12

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter 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.

Deuteronomy 24:7

“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.