Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
In Context
2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
1 Samuel 12:3Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”
Job 31:16If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
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 →