Job 24:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ The orphan is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ They pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ [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)

⁹ There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

Common English Bible

⁹ The orphan is stolen from the breast; the infant of the poor is taken as collateral.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.

Job 24:9 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 4:1

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha saying, “Your servant my husband is dead—you know that your servant feared Adonai. Now the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Nehemiah 5:5

And now, though we share the same flesh as our brothers, and our children are just like their children, still we subject our sons and our daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved but our hands are tied since our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Job 22:6

For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason; you stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:10

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

Job 24:8

They are drenched by mountain rains, and hug the rock for lack of shelter.

Job 29:12

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

Job 6:27

Would you cast lots for an orphan, and barter over your friend?

Isaiah 3:14

Adonai will enter into judgment with the elders of His people and with the princes: “You have devoured the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Deuteronomy 24:7

“If a man is caught kidnapping any of his brothers from Bnei-Yisrael, whether he treats him like property or sells him, then that kidnapper must die. So you are to purge the evil from your midst.