Key Verse Spotlight
Job 24:3 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.”
Job 24:3
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
{Some} remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed {thereof}. {feed...: or, feed them}
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Behold, {as} wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness {yieldeth} food for them {and} for {their} children.
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