Job 24:9

WEB

⁹There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

KJV

⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

BSB

⁹The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

FBV

⁹Fatherless children are snatched from their mother's breasts, taking the babies of the poor as security for a debt.

Extra References

Nehemiah 5:5

⁵Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, ^[+] we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

2 Kings 4:1

¹Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”