Job 24:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)

Cross References

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.”

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, 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.”

Job 22:6

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

Job 24:10

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

Job 24:8

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

Job 29:12

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

Job 6:27

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

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters 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 brethren, 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 the midst of you.