Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
King James Version
In Context
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:10When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
1 Samuel 12:3Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
Job 31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow 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 →