Job 24:9
“They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore.”
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Job 24:9 Context
7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold. 8They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter. 9They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take a pledge of the poore. 10They cause him to go naked without clothing: and they take away the sheafe from the hungry, 11Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- King James Version
"Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.
- New American Standard Version (1995)