Job 24:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

They drive away the donkey 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 lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
  • Deut 24:17-21 : 17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge: 18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do this thing. 19 When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall 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 donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it? and I will restore it to you.
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he possessed the land; and the honorable man lived in it. 9 You have 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:8-10
    3 verses
    85%

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

    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Job 24:2
    84%

    2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and feed on them.

  • Job 24:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

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

    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

    6They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Isa 10:2
    78%

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

  • Deut 24:17
    77%

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Ps 94:6
    77%

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

  • Job 22:9
    76%

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

  • Mic 2:2
    74%

    2They 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%

    31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

  • Ezek 22:7
    74%

    7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Prov 23:10
    73%

    10Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

  • Amos 2:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7They 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 go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:

    8They lie 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
    2 verses
    73%

    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

    23For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

  • Lam 5:3
    72%

    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

  • Job 6:27
    72%

    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Deut 24:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Amos 8:4
    72%

    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Jer 5:28
    72%

    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

    19Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Gen 34:28
    71%

    28They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, and what was in the city and what was in the field.

  • Deut 24:6
    71%

    6No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21He does evil to the barren who does not bear, and shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Job 22:6
    71%

    6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Isa 1:23
    71%

    23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Deut 24:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

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

    4Deliver the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Exod 22:10
    70%

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, ox, sheep, or any animal to keep and it dies, is injured, or is driven away, with no one seeing it,

  • Job 31:16
    70%

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

  • Exod 23:6
    70%

    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Isa 5:23
    70%

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

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
    70%

    16And he will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

  • Amos 4:1
    70%

    1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, 'Bring, and let us drink.'

  • Exod 22:24
    70%

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

  • Ezek 22:29
    70%

    29The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Job 20:19
    70%

    19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build;

  • Prov 28:3
    69%

    3A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

  • Isa 3:14
    69%

    14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.