Job 24:9
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Read in context2 Kings 4:1
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
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