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Job 24:9

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 24:9 · King James Version

In other versions

  • There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

    ASV

  • The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

    BBE

  • They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

    DBY

  • There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,

    WEB

  • They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

    YLT

  • They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    ENG

  • They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    WBT

  • The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

    BSB

In context

7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

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