King James Version (KJV)
Job 24:9
“They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.”
Verse in context — Job 24
7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
11
[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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