Job 24:3 · KJV
“They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.”
— Job 24:3
{Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}. {feed...: or, feed them}
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 24 — Context
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2{Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}. {feed...: or, feed them}
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5Behold, {as} wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness {yieldeth} food for them {and} for {their} children.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh {a man's} life to pledge.
Job 31:16-17
If I have withheld the poor from {their} desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 22:6-9
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. {the naked...: Heb. the clothes of the naked}
Deuteronomy 24:10-13
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. {lend...: Heb. lend the loan of any thing to, etc}
1 Samuel 12:3
Behold, here I {am}: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received {any} bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. {bribe: Heb. ransom} {to blind...: or, that I should hide mine eyes at him}
Deuteronomy 24:17-21
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, {nor} of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: