Job 24:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor 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%

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

    3They drive away the donkey 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 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.

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

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

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

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

    11They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst.

  • Job 22:9
    79%

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

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    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!

  • Ps 94:6
    76%

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

  • Job 5:5
    75%

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

  • Deut 24:17
    75%

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

  • Lam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones; the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

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

    7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Prov 30:14
    74%

    14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and whose jaws are like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

  • Amos 8:4
    74%

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

  • Lam 5:3
    74%

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

  • Job 6:27
    74%

    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you 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; rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Amos 2:7
    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:

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

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

    17Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:7
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 10:14
    73%

    14You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Job 29:12
    72%

    12Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.

  • Prov 22:23
    72%

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

  • Job 31:21
    72%

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

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

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

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

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

  • Mic 2:2
    71%

    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.

  • Job 20:19
    71%

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

  • Ps 109:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

    11Let the extortioner seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor.

  • Deut 24:21
    71%

    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.

  • Job 31:19
    71%

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

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

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

  • Job 24:21
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:10
    71%

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

  • Job 29:17
    70%

    17And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.

  • Prov 22:16
    70%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30And the firstborn of the poor will feed, and the needy will lie down in safety: and I will kill your root with famine, and he will slay your remnant.

  • Ps 10:2
    70%

    2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.

  • Ezek 18:16
    70%

    16Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,