Job 24:3
They steal the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as security for a debt.
Free Bible 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
4They push the poor out of their way; the destitute are forced to hide from them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6Don't accept a pair of millstones, or even just an upper millstone, as security for a debt, because that would put the borrower's life in danger.
Deuteronomy 24:10If you lend anything to someone, don't go into their house to take some kind of security.
1 Samuel 12:3I stand here before you. Bring any charges you have against me in the presence of the Lord and of his anointed one. Have I taken anyone's ox or donkey? Have I wronged anyone? Have I oppressed anyone? Have I accepted a bribe from anyone to turn a blind eye? Tell me, and I will repay you.”
Job 31:16Have I refused to give the poor what they needed, or caused widows to despair?
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 →