Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
In Context
2They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
4They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:10When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge.
1 Samuel 12:3Here I am: testify against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I injured? or of whose hand have I received any ransom and blinded mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.
Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or 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 →