Job 24:9

New International Reader's Version

Children whose fathers have died are torn away from their mothers. A poor person’s baby is taken away to pay back what is owed.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

The wife of a man from the group of the prophets cried out to Elisha. She said, “My husband is dead. You know how much respect he had for the Lord. But he owed money to someone. And now that person is coming to take my two boys away. They will become his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

We belong to the same family lines as the rest of our people. Our children are as good as theirs. But we’ve had to sell them off as slaves. Some of our daughters have already been made slaves. But we can’t do anything about it. That’s because our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Job 22:6

You took clothes away from your relatives just because they owed you some money. You left them naked for no reason at all.

Job 24:10

The poor don’t have any clothes. They go around naked. They carry bundles of grain, but they still go hungry.

Job 24:8

They are soaked by mountain rains. They hug the rocks because they don’t have anything to keep them warm.

Job 29:12

That’s because I saved poor people who cried out for help. I saved helpless children whose fathers had died.

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots for those whose fathers have died. You would even trade away your closest friend.

Isaiah 3:14

He judges the elders and leaders of his people. He says to them, “My people are like a vineyard. You have destroyed them. The things you have taken from poor people are in your houses.

Deuteronomy 24:7

Suppose someone is caught kidnapping another Israelite. And they sell or treat that person as a slave. Then the kidnapper must die. Get rid of that evil person.