Job 24:3

WEB

³They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

KJV

³They drive away^[+] the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

BSB

³They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

FBV

³They steal the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as security for a debt.

Extra References

Deuteronomy 24:6

⁶No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

¹⁰When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. ¹¹You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you. ¹²If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. ¹³You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

Job 22:6-9

⁶For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. ⁸But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it. ⁹You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 31:16-17

¹⁶“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, ¹⁷or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Deuteronomy 24:17-21

¹⁷You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; ¹⁸but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.

¹⁹When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²¹When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

1 Samuel 12:3

³Here I am. Witness against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”