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.

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  • 2 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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