Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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Referenced Verses
- 2 Kgs 4:1 : 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.
- Neh 5:5 : 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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- Job 24:2-87 verses85%
2 [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, [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.
6 They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
- Job 24:10-112 verses85%
10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
11 [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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2 To 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!
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6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
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5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
- Lam 4:3-42 verses75%
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.
- Job 22:6-72 verses74%
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.
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14 [There is] a generation, whose teeth [are as] swords, and their jaw teeth [as] knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from [among] men.
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4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
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27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
- Ps 82:3-42 verses74%
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.
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7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:
- Job 31:16-172 verses73%
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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28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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7 In 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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14 Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
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12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
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23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
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21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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3 ¶ A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
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11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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2 And 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.
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19 Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
- Ps 109:10-112 verses71%
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
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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.
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19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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21 He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to 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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17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.
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22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
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2 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, [but] hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,