Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Webster Bible
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 showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant feared the LORD: and the creditor hath come to take to him my two sons to be bond-men.
Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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 →