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