Job 24:9
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They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

2 Kings 4:1 Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

Nehemiah 5:5 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess.

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
8Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones. 9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.10From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.…
Cross References
Job 6:27
You rush in upon the fatherless, and you endeavour to overthrow your friend.

Job 22:6
For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 24:8
Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones.

Job 24:10
From the naked and them that go without clothing, and from the hungry they have taken away the ears of corn.

Job 29:12
Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper.

Isaiah 3:14
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and its princes: for you have devoured the vineyard, and the spoil of the poor is in your house.

Lexicon
The fatherless infant
יָת֑וֹם (yā·ṯō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3490: A bereaved person

is snatched
יִ֭גְזְלוּ (yiḡ·zə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob

from the breast;
מִשֹּׁ֣ד (miš·šōḏ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal

the nursing child
וְֽעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5764: A sucking child, suckling

of the poor
עָנִ֥י (‘ā·nî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

is seized for a debt.
יַחְבֹּֽלוּ׃ (yaḥ·bō·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2254: To wind tightly, to bind, a pledge, to pervert, destroy, to writhe in pain


Additional Translations
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.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;

They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

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:

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,

They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.
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