Job 24:9

Modern English Version

They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now one of the wives 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 a creditor has come to take my two sons as slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen. Our children are like their children, but we are subjugating our sons and our daughters as servants. Behold, some of our daughters are in bondage already, and we are powerless to do anything because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Job 22:6

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, 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 who cried, and the fatherless, and him who had none to help him.

Job 6:27

Yes, you cast lots for the fatherless, and you bargain over your friend.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and the princes of His people: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If a man is found kidnapping any of his brothers of the Israelites, and makes property of him or sells him, then that kidnapper must die, and you must remove the evil from among you.