Job 24:9
There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
In Context
8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
10[so that] they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the sheaves.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo
Job 22:6For thou have taken pledges from thy brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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 →