Job 24:9
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- KJV
- They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- WEB
- There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
- ASV
- There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
- DARBY
- They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
- BLB
- They snatch from the breast the fatherless, and the suckling of the poor they bind with a pledge.
- ÅB
- Den farløse rives bort fra mors bryst, og armingens klær blir tatt som pant.
- OTB
- Andre røver et barn fra brystet,
Og tar det som pant mot de fattige. - B1930
- Den farløse rives bort fra mors bryst, og armingens klær blir tatt som pant.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 5:5
We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
Read in context2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
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