Job 24:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

New Living Translation
“The wicked snatch a widow’s child from her breast, taking the baby as security for a loan.

English Standard Version
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

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

New American Standard Bible
Others snatch an orphan from the breast, And they seize it as a pledge against the poor.

NASB 1995
"Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.

NASB 1977
“Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.

Amplified Bible
“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].

Christian Standard Bible
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"[People] snatch the [nursing] orphan from a breast and take a poor woman's baby as security for a loan.

International Standard Version
"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

NET Bible
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

New King James Version
Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.

King James 2000 Bible
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

New Heart English Bible
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

World English Bible
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

American King James Version
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

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

A Faithful Version
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

Darby Bible Translation
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

English Revised Version
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

Webster's Bible Translation
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
They spoyle the suckinge fatherlesse children, and put the poore in preson:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
They take away violently "" The orphan from the breast, "" And they lay a pledge on the poor.

Young's Literal Translation
They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

Smith's Literal Translation
They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
They seize some pillage of orphans, and on the poor they set desolations

Lamsa Bible
They take by force plunder of the fatherless, and they devour the poor.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
















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