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Job 24:9
9When wicked people lend money to poor people, they even take a child whose father has died away from his mother.
Job 24:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- New International Version (NIV)The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
- English Standard Version (ESV)(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.
Context of Job 24:9
7They have no clothes to wear during the cold nights. They sleep without anything to cover themselves. 8The rain that falls in the mountains makes them very wet. So they hide among the rocks where they try to keep dry. When wicked people lend money to poor people, they even take a child whose father has died away from his mother. 10Poor people have to go out with no clothes to wear. They are hungry while they carry the crops of other people. 11They squeeze oil from olives that grow in the fields of other people. They also make wine from other people's grapes. But they themselves are thirsty.
Read all of Job 24Job 24:9 word by word
יִ֭גְזְלוּ מִשֹּׁ֣ד יָת֑וֹם וְֽעַל־עָנִ֥י יַחְבֹּֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 24:9
- 2 Kings 4:1There was a woman whose husband belonged to the group of prophets. When her husband died, she called out to Elisha for help. She said, ‘Your servant, my husband, is dead. He served the Lord faithfully. My husband was in debt to a certain man. Now that man wants to take my two children to be his slaves.’
- Nehemiah 5:5Now we have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves so that we can pay back the money. But we are from the same human family as those other Jews. Our children are not different from their children. Already some of our daughters have become slaves. Our fields and vineyards now belong to other people, so we are helpless to do anything.’
Commentaries on Job 24:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast - They forcibly take young children in order that they may bring them up in a state of slavery. This verse is the commencement of a new paragraph, and points out the arbitrary dealings of oppressors, under despotic governors. Take a pledge of the poor - Oppressive landlords who let out their grounds at an exorbitant rent, which the poor laborers, though using the utmost diligence, are unable at all times to pay…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9They pluck the fatherless from the breast - That is, they steal away unprotected children, and sell them, or make slaves of them for their own use. If this is the correct interpretation, then there existed at that time, what has existed since, so much to the disgrace of mankind, the custom of kidnapping children, and bearing them away to be sold as slaves. Slavery existed in early ages; and it must have been in some such way that slaves were procured. The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt: See 2 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:1–5; Matthew 18:25.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-242-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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