Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor.

New American Standard Bible

Others snatch the orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

King James Version

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

Holman Bible

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

International Standard Version

"The fatherless are torn from the breast; the poor are taken away as security for a loan.

A Conservative Version

There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

American Standard Version

There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

Amplified


“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].

Bible in Basic English

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Darby Translation

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

King James 2000

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"They snatch [the] orphan from [the] breast, and they take a pledge against [the] needy.

Modern King James verseion

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

NET Bible

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

New Heart English Bible

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

The Emphasized Bible

Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;

Webster

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

World English Bible

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּזל 
Gazal 
Usage: 30

יתום 
Yathowm 
Usage: 42

from the breast
שׁד שׁד 
Shad 
Usage: 24

References

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

8 They will be wet from the pouring rains of the mountains, and they embraced the rock from no shelter. 9 They will strip the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge for the poor. 10 They caused the naked to go without clothing, and from the hungry they took away the sheaf;

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband died, and thou knewest that thy servant was fearing Jehovah: and the creditor came to take my two children for servants.

Nehemiah 5:5

And now according to the flesh of our brethren, our flesh; as their sons, our sons: and behold, we subdue our sons and our daughters for servants, and there is from our daughters being subdued: and not to the strength of our hand and our fields and our vineyards to others.

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