Job 24:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. 12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; 13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 24:17-21 : 17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge; 18 but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing. 19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh 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 foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes therewith? I will restore it to you."
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:8-10
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    85%

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

    9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

    10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

  • Job 24:2
    84%

    2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

  • Job 24:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

    5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

    6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Isa 10:2
    78%

    2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Deut 24:17
    77%

    17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Ps 94:6
    77%

    6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Job 22:9
    76%

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

  • Mic 2:2
    74%

    2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Deut 28:31
    74%

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

  • Ezek 22:7
    74%

    7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Prov 23:10
    73%

    10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

  • Amos 2:7-8
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    73%

    7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

    8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

  • Prov 22:22-23
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    73%

    22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

    23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Job 6:27
    72%

    27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  • Deut 24:19-21
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    72%

    19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh 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 foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19 'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Gen 34:28
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    28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

  • Deut 24:6
    71%

    6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Job 22:6
    71%

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

  • Isa 1:23
    71%

    23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don't judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Deut 24:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

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

    12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Ps 82:3-4
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    71%

    3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

    4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

  • Exod 22:10
    70%

    10 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, 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,

  • Exod 23:6
    70%

    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Isa 5:23
    70%

    23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
    70%

    16 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

  • Amos 4:1
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    1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

  • Exod 22:24
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    24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Ezek 22:29
    70%

    29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

  • Job 20:19
    70%

    19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

  • Prov 28:3
    69%

    3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Isa 3:14
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    14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: "It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.