Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
In Context
2There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:10When thou do lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
1 Samuel 12:3Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with i
Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13
Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food… Read the whole commentary →