Job 24:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 And one of the wiues of the sonnes of the Prophets cryed vnto Elisha, saying, Thy seruant mine husbande is dead, and thou knowest, that thy seruant did feare the Lord: and the creditour is come to take my two sonnes to bee his bondmen.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 And nowe our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, and our sonnes as their sonnes: and lo, we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters, as seruants, and there be of our daughters nowe in subiection, and there is no power in our handes: for other men haue our landes and our vineyardes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:2-8
    7 verses
    85%

    2Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.

    3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

    4They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

    5Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.

    6They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.

    7They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.

    8They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.

    11They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.

  • Job 22:9
    79%

    9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    2To keepe backe ye poore from iudgement, and to take away the iudgement of the poore of my people, that widowes may be their pray, and that they may spoyle the fatherlesse.

  • Ps 94:6
    76%

    6They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.

  • Job 5:5
    75%

    5The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

  • Deut 24:17
    75%

    17Thou shalt not peruert the right of the stranger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a widowes rayment to pledge.

  • Lam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3Euen the dragons draw out the breastes, and giue sucke to their yong, but the daughter of my people is become cruell like the ostriches in the wildernesse.

    4The tongue of the sucking childe cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the yong children aske bread, but no man breaketh it vnto them.

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.

    7To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.

  • Prov 30:14
    74%

    14There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.

  • Amos 8:4
    74%

    4Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle,

  • Lam 5:3
    74%

    3We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

  • Job 6:27
    74%

    27Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Doe right to the poore and fatherlesse: doe iustice to the poore and needie.

    4Deliuer the poore and needie: saue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7They gape ouer the head of the poore, in the dust of the earth, and peruert the wayes of the meeke: and a man and his father will goe in to a mayde to dishonour mine holy Name.

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

    17Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.

  • Ezek 22:7
    73%

    7In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.

  • Ps 10:14
    73%

    14Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.

  • Job 29:12
    72%

    12For I deliuered the poore that cryed, and the fatherlesse, and him that had none to helpe him.

  • Prov 22:23
    72%

    23For the Lord will defende their cause, and spoyle the soule of those that spoyle them.

  • Job 31:21
    72%

    21If I haue lift vp mine hande against the fatherlesse, when I saw that I might helpe him in the gate,

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11Leaue thy fathers children, and I will preserue them aliue, and let thy widowes trust in me.

  • Mic 2:2
    71%

    2And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.

  • Job 20:19
    71%

    19For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

  • Ps 109:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Let his children be vagabounds & beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.

    11Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.

  • Deut 24:21
    71%

    21When thou gatherest thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the grapes cleane after thee, but they shalbe for the stranger, for the fatherlesse, and for the widowe.

  • Job 31:19
    71%

    19If I haue seene any perish for want of clothing, or any poore without couering,

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

    12Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.

  • Prov 23:10
    71%

    10Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.

  • Job 29:17
    70%

    17I brake also the chawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the praye out of his teeth.

  • Prov 22:16
    70%

    16Hee that oppresseth the poore to increase him selfe, and giueth vnto the riche, shall surely come to pouertie.

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe.

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30For the first borne of the poore shall be fed, and the needie shall lie downe in safetie: and I will kill thy roote with famine, and it shal slay thy remnant.

  • Ps 10:2
    70%

    2The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

  • Ezek 18:16
    70%

    16Neither hath oppressed any, nor hath withholden the pledge, neither hath spoyled by violence, but hath giuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment,