Job 24:9

New English Translation

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying, “Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the Lord. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”

Nehemiah 5:5

And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

Job 22:6

“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

Job 24:10

They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

Job 24:8

They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

Job 29:12

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

Job 6:27

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says, “It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.