Job 24:3
They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.
Catholic Public Domain 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
2Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture.
4They have undermined the way of the poor, and have pressed together the meek of the earth.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6You shall not accept an upper or lower millstone as collateral. For then he will have placed his life with you.
Deuteronomy 24:10When you require from your neighbor anything that he owes to you, you shall not enter into his house in order to take away the collateral.
1 Samuel 12:3Speak about me before the Lord, and before his Christ, as to whether I have taken anyone’s ox or donkey, or whether I have falsely accused anyone, or whether I have oppressed anyone, or whether I have accepted a bribe from the hand of anyone, and I will repudiate the same, this day, and I will restore it to you.”
Job 31:16If I have denied the poor what they wanted and have made the eyes of the widow wait;
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 →