Job 24:9
Good News Translation
Evil people make slaves of fatherless infants and take the children of the poor in payment for debts.

New Revised Standard Version
“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast, and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

Contemporary English Version
Children whose fathers have died are taken from their mothers as payment for a debt.

New American Bible
Orphans are snatched from the breast, infants of the needy are taken in pledge.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

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They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

2 Kings 4:1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

Nehemiah 5:5 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
8Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones. 9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.10From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.…
Cross References
Job 6:27
You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Job 22:6
For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 24:8
Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

Job 24:10
From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

Job 29:12
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Job 24:8
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