Job 24:9
They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1And one of the wiues of the sonnes of the Prophets cryed vnto Elisha, saying, Thy seruant mine husband is dead, and thou knowest, that thy seruant did feare the Lord: and the creditour is come to take my two sonnes to bee his bondmen.
Job 22:6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the 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 →