Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
Darby Translation
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 for want of a shelter embrace the rock
10These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.
Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked.
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 →