Job 24:9
Job 24:1-12 The Message (MSG)
“But if Judgment Day isn’t hidden from the Almighty, why are we kept in the dark? There are people out there getting by with murder— stealing and lying and cheating. They rip off the poor and exploit the unfortunate, Push the helpless into the ditch, bully the weak so that they fear for their lives. The poor, like stray dogs and cats, scavenge for food in back alleys. They sort through the garbage of the rich, eke out survival on handouts. Homeless, they shiver through cold nights on the street; they’ve no place to lay their heads. Exposed to the weather, wet and frozen, they huddle in makeshift shelters. Nursing mothers have their babies snatched from them; the infants of the poor are kidnapped and sold. They go about patched and threadbare; even the hard workers go hungry. No matter how backbreaking their labor, they can never make ends meet. People are dying right and left, groaning in torment. The wretched cry out for help and God does nothing, acts like nothing’s wrong!
Job 24:9 King James Version (KJV)
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor.
Job 24:9 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.
Job 24:9 New Century Version (NCV)
The fatherless child is grabbed from its mother’s breast; they take a poor mother’s baby to pay for what she owes.
Job 24:9 American Standard Version (ASV)
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor
Job 24:9 New International Version (NIV)
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast; the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
Job 24:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
“Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.
Job 24:9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves], And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].