Job 24:9 · KJV
“They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.”
— Job 24:9
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
They cause {him} to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf {from} the hungry;
Job 24 — Context
They 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;
11{Which} make oil within their walls, {and} tread {their} winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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.
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.