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Job 24:9
Job 24:9 is verse 9 of Job chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
King James Version
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
World English Bible
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
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Job 24:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Kings 4:1Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
Nehemiah 5:5We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”