Job 24:9

New Century Version

The fatherless child is grabbed from its mother’s breast; they take a poor mother’s baby to pay for what she owes.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

The wife of a man from the groups of prophets said to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead. You know he honored the Lord. But now the man he owes money to is coming to take my two boys as his slaves!”

Nehemiah 5:5

We are just like our fellow Jews, and our sons are like their sons. But we have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves. Some of our daughters have already been sold. But there is nothing we can do, because our fields and vineyards already belong to other people.”

Job 22:6

You took your brothers’ things for a debt they didn’t owe; you took clothes from people and left them naked.

Job 24:10

So the poor go around naked without any clothes; they carry bundles of grain but still go hungry;

Job 24:8

They are soaked from mountain rains and stay near the large rocks because they have no shelter.

Job 29:12

because I saved the poor who called out and the orphan who had no one to help.

Job 6:27

You would even gamble for orphans and would trade away your friend.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord presents his case against the elders and other leaders of his people: “You have burned the vineyard. Your houses are full of what you took from the poor.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If someone kidnaps a fellow Israelite, either to make him a slave or sell him, the kidnapper must be killed. You must get rid of the evil among you.