Job 24:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 24:2-8
    7 verses
    85%

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

    3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

    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.

    7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

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

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10They 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.

  • Job 22:9
    79%

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

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    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!

  • Ps 94:6
    76%

    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Job 5:5
    75%

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

  • Deut 24:17
    75%

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

  • Lam 4:3-4
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    75%

    3Even 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.

    4The 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 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

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

    7Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

  • Prov 30:14
    74%

    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.

  • Amos 8:4
    74%

    4¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  • Lam 5:3
    74%

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

  • Job 6:27
    74%

    27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

    4Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7That 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 31:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

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

    17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28They 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.

  • Ezek 22:7
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 10:14
    73%

    14Thou 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.

  • Job 29:12
    72%

    12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.

  • Prov 22:23
    72%

    23For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

  • Job 31:21
    72%

    21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3¶ A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve [them] alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

  • Mic 2:2
    71%

    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.

  • Job 20:19
    71%

    19Because he hath oppressed [and] hath forsaken the poor; [because] he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

  • Ps 109:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.

    11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

  • Deut 24:21
    71%

    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.

  • Job 31:19
    71%

    19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

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

  • Job 24:21
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:10
    71%

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

  • Job 29:17
    70%

    17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

  • Prov 22:16
    70%

    16¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

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

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30And 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.

  • Ps 10:2
    70%

    2The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  • Ezek 18:16
    70%

    16Neither 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,