Job 24:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. 12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
  • Deut 24:17-21 : 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the LORD, 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 received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. 8 But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 31:16-17 : 16 ¶ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

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

    9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    10They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;

  • Job 24:2
    84%

    2[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].

  • Job 24:4-6
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    84%

    4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

    5Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

    6They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Isa 10:2
    78%

    2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

  • Deut 24:17
    77%

    17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Job 22:9
    76%

    9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Deut 28:31
    74%

    31Thine ox [shall be] slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass [shall be] violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep [shall be] given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue [them].

  • Ezek 22:7
    74%

    7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

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    10¶ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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    22¶ Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

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    3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

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    19When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

    20When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Amos 8:4
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  • Jer 5:28
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    19Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Gen 34:28
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    28They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which [was] in the city, and that which [was] in the field,

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    6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

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    71%

    6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Isa 1:23
    71%

    23Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

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    71%

    5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Deut 24:11-12
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    71%

    11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

    12And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    71%

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    16¶ If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

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