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Job 24:9 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. "
Job 24:9
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Job 24:1
"Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?"
Job 24:2
"Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed"
Job 24:3
"They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge."
Job 24:4
"They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together."
Job 24:5
"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."
Job 24:6
"They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked."
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