Job 24:9
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 Standard Bible
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

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.

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.

Legacy Standard Bible
Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the afflicted 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.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They seize some pillage of orphans, and on the poor they set desolations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Literal Standard Version
They take away violently | The orphan from the breast, | And they lay a pledge on the poor.

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

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

NET Bible
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

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.

New Heart English Bible
There are those who 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.

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

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

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Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter. 9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt. 10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.…

Cross References
Job 6:27
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

Job 22:6
For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:8
Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

Job 24:10
Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

Job 29:12
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Isaiah 3:14
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: "You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.


Treasury of Scripture

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

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.

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.

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1. Wickedness often goes unpunished
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Verse 9. - They pluck the fatherless from the breast. Other oppressors, not of the marauding class, but dwellers in towns (ver. 12), are so cruel that they tear the unweaned child of the debtor from the mother's breast, as satisfaction for a debt, and carry him off into slavery (comp. 2 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:5). And take a pledge of the poor; literally, take in pledge that which is on the poor - in other words, their clothing. They will not lend to them on any other terms, and so force them to part with their garments, and go about naked. Even Hebrew creditors seem to have done this (Exodus 22:26; Deuteronomy 24:12, 13); and the Mosaic Law did not forbid the practice, but only required the creditor to let the debtor have his garment at night, that he might sleep in it (Exodus 22:27; Deuteronomy 24:13).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The fatherless infant
יָת֑וֹם (yā·ṯō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3490: A bereaved person

is snatched
יִ֭גְזְלוּ (yiḡ·zə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob

from the breast;
מִשֹּׁ֣ד (miš·šōḏ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal

the nursing child
וְֽעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5764: A sucking child, suckling

of the poor
עָנִ֥י (‘ā·nî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

is seized for a debt.
יַחְבֹּֽלוּ׃ (yaḥ·bō·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2254: To wind tightly, to bind, a pledge, to pervert, destroy, to writhe in pain


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