Job 24:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.'
  • Neh 5:5 : 5 and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:2-8
    7 verses
    85%

    2The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

    3The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

    4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

    5Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

    6In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

    7The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.

    8From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock.

  • Job 24:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

    11Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.

  • Job 22:9
    79%

    9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

  • Isa 10:2
    79%

    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • Ps 94:6
    76%

    6Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

  • Job 5:5
    75%

    5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • Deut 24:17
    75%

    17`Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

  • Lam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.

    4Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

  • Job 22:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.

    7Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread.

  • Prov 30:14
    74%

    14A generation -- swords `are' their teeth, And knives -- their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from `among' men.

  • Amos 8:4
    74%

    4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

  • Lam 5:3
    74%

    3Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.

  • Job 6:27
    74%

    27Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

    4Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

  • Amos 2:7
    73%

    7Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

    17And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

  • Jer 5:28
    73%

    28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

  • Ezek 22:7
    73%

    7Father and mother made light of in thee, To a sojourner they dealt oppressively in thy midst, Fatherless and widow they oppressed in thee.

  • Ps 10:14
    73%

    14Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

  • Job 29:12
    72%

    12For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

  • Prov 22:23
    72%

    23For Jehovah pleadeth their cause, And hath spoiled the soul of their spoilers.

  • Job 31:21
    72%

    21If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in `him' the gate of my court,

  • Prov 28:3
    72%

    3A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

  • Jer 49:11
    72%

    11Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,

  • Mic 2:2
    71%

    2And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

  • Job 20:19
    71%

    19For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

  • Ps 109:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

    11An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

  • Deut 24:21
    71%

    21`When thou cuttest thy vineyard, thou dost not glean behind thee; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is;

  • Job 31:19
    71%

    19If I see `any' perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

  • Deut 24:12
    71%

    12`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21Treating evil the barren `who' beareth not, And `to' the widow he doth no good,

  • Prov 23:10
    71%

    10Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

  • Job 29:17
    70%

    17And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

  • Prov 22:16
    70%

    16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.

  • Ps 10:2
    70%

    2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

  • Ezek 18:16
    70%

    16A man -- he hath not oppressed, A pledge he hath not bound, And plunder he hath not taken away, His bread to the hungry he hath given, And the naked he covered with a garment,