Job 24:9

They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, 1 And have afflicted the outcast. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 drops of the mountains: 1 They have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter. 1

10And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, 1 And taken away the morsel of the hungry. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 4:1And one 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 the Lord: and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his servants.

Job 22:6And thou hast taken security of thy brethren for nothing, 1 And hast taken away the clothing of the naked. 1

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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