American Standard Version
"There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; "
— Job 24:9, American Standard Version
“They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.”
“There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,”
“The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.”
“They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.”
“The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.”
“They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.”
They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
So thatthey go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.
They make oil within the walls of these men; They treadtheirwinepresses, and suffer thirst.
From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded crieth out: Yet God regardeth not the folly.