Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of those without fathers; 1 they take the widow's ox as security. 1

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In The King James Version

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

In Context

2There are wicked people who remove boundary markers; 1 there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures. 1

4They force needy people out of their path; 1 poor people of the earth all hide themselves from them. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:6No man may take a mill or an upper millstone as a pledge, for that would be taking a person's life as a pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:10When you make your neighbor any kind of loan, you must not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

1 Samuel 12:3Here I am; testify against me before Yahweh and before his anointed one. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with? Testify against me, and I will restore it to you.”

Job 31:16If I have withheld poor people from their desire, 1 or if I have caused the eyes of the widow to grow dim from crying, 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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