9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.


In Context

6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.

7 Lacking clothes, they spend the night naked; they have nothing to cover themselves in the cold.

8 They are drenched by mountain rains and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked; they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

11 They crush olives among the terraces ; they tread the winepresses, yet suffer thirst.

Job 24:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.