Job 24:9
Fatherless children are snatched from their mother's breasts, taking the babies of the poor as security for a debt.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
In Context
8They are soaked by the cold mountain storms, and huddle beside the rocks for shelter.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1The wife of one of the sons of the prophets appealed to Elisha, “My husband, your servant, is dead, and you know that he honored the Lord. But now to pay his debts his creditor is coming to take my two sons as his slaves!”
Job 22:6For no reason at all you took your brother's clothing as a security for a debt, and left them stripped 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 →