Job 24:9 - Easy To Read Version Evil people take a nursing baby from its mother.\par They take a poor person’s child\par as security {\cf2\super [39]} for a loan.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [The violent men whose wickedness seems unnoticed] pluck the fatherless infants from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], and take [the clothing on] the poor for a pledge, American Standard Version (1901) There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; Common English Bible The orphan is stolen from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as collateral. Catholic Public Domain Version They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people. |
A man from the group of prophets [22] had a wife. {This man died.} His wife cried out to Elisha, “My husband was like a servant to you. Now my husband is dead! You know he honored the Lord. But he owed money to a man. And now that man is coming to take my two boys and make them his slaves!”
\{Look at those rich people!\} We are as good as they are. Our sons are as good as their sons. But we will have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves. Some of us have already had to sell our daughters as slaves! There is nothing we can do! We already lost our fields and vineyards! Other people own them now!”
Maybe you loaned a brother some money\par and forced him to give you something\par to prove he would pay it back.\par Maybe you took some poor man’s clothes\par as collateral {\cf2\super [34]} for a loan.\par Maybe you did that for no reason.\par
Poor people have no clothes.\par So they work naked.\par They carry piles of grain for evil people,\par but still they go hungry.\par
They are soaked with rain\par in the mountains.\par They have nothing to protect them\par from the cold.\par So they huddle close to the large rocks.\par
Why? Because when the poor person\par cried out for help, I helped.\par And I helped the child that had no parents\par and no one to care for him.\par
You would even gamble to win things\par that belong to children without fathers.\par You would sell out your own friend.\par
The Lord will give his judgment against the elders {\cf2\super [32]} and leaders for the things they have done.
“A person might kidnap another Israelite—one of his own people. And that kidnapper might sell that person as a slave. If that happens, then that kidnapper must be killed. You must remove that evil from your group.