Catholic Public Domain Version
"They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people. "
— Job 24:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.”
“There are that 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 reap a field that is not their own, and they harvest a vineyard that they have taken by force.
They send men away naked, having taken the clothing of those who have no covering in the cold;
these are wet with the mountain rain, and, having no covering, they embrace the rocks.
They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.
From the naked and those who do not have enough clothing, and from the hungry, they have taken away sheaves of grain.
They take their midday rest among the stockpiles of those who, though they have trodden the winepresses, suffer thirst.
In the cities, they caused the men to groan and the spirit of the wounded to cry out, and so God does not allow this to go unpunished.