Job 24:9
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
Bible in Basic English
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 rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
Job 22:6For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
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 →