Devine Scripture

Job 24:3

Job chapter 24 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Context

v.2There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

v.3This passage

v.4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 31:16

    If I have withheld the poor fromtheirdesire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Deuteronomy 24:17

    Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge;

  • Deuteronomy 24:6

    No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

  • Job 22:6

    For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • 1 Samuel 12:3

    Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, 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 taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

  • Deuteronomy 24:10

    When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.