Job 24:9

They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

In Context

8Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

10From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:1Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

Job 22:6For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, 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 →

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