Devine Scripture

Job 24:9

Job chapter 24 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

v.9This passage

v.10So thatthey go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Cross references

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

  • 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 into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our 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 Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.