Job 24:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • 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 liver 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 reemed 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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  • Job 24:8-10
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    8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

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

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

  • Job 24:2
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    2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

  • Job 24:4-6
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    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.

  • Isa 10:2
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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!

  • Deut 24:17
    77%

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

  • Job 22:9
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    9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Mic 2:2
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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.

  • Deut 28:31
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    31 Thine 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
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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.

  • Prov 23:10
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    10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  • Amos 2:7-8
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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 se maid, to profane my holy ne:

    8 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither opess the afflicted in the gate:

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

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

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

  • Deut 24:19-21
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    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.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  • Jer 5:28
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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.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19 Cursed 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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    28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

  • Deut 24:6
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    6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

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

  • Job 24:21
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    21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

  • Job 22:6
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    6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Isa 1:23
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    23 Thy 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.

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5 Whose 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%

    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:

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    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.

  • Exod 22:10
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    10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

  • Job 31:16
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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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    6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

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    23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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    11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
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    16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

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    24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

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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;

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    3 A poor man that opesseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

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    14 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.