Job 24:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Elisha Helps a Widow and Her Sons Now a wife of one of the prophets appealed to Elisha for help, saying,“Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the LORD. Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.”
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

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  • Job 24:2-8
    7 verses
    85%

    2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

    4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

    7They spend the night naked because they lack clothing; they have no covering against the cold.

    8They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

    11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • Job 22:9
    79%

    9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Ps 94:6
    76%

    6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.

  • Job 5:5
    75%

    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Deut 24:17
    75%

    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Lam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

    4ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

    7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

  • Prov 30:14
    74%

    14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

  • Amos 8:4
    74%

    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

  • Lam 5:3
    74%

    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

  • Job 6:27
    74%

    27Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

    4Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    17If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

  • Ezek 22:7
    73%

    7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

  • Ps 10:14
    73%

    14You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

  • Job 29:12
    72%

    12for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

  • Prov 22:23
    72%

    23for the LORD will plead their case and will rob the life those who are robbing them.

  • Job 31:21
    72%

    21if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

  • Mic 2:2
    71%

    2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

  • Job 20:19
    71%

    19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

  • Ps 109:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

    11May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

  • Deut 24:21
    71%

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.

  • Job 31:19
    71%

    19If I have seen anyone about to perish for lack of clothing, or a poor man without a coat,

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

    12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

  • Prov 23:10
    71%

    10Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

  • Job 29:17
    70%

    17I broke the fangs of the wicked, and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

  • Prov 22:16
    70%

    16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30The poor will graze in my pastures; the needy will rest securely. But I will kill your root by famine; it will put to death all your survivors.

  • Ps 10:2
    70%

    2The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

  • Ezek 18:16
    70%

    16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,