Job 24:9 | |
NASB: "Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge. (NASB ©1995) GWT: "[People] snatch the [nursing] orphan from a breast and take a poor woman's baby as security for a loan. (GOD'S WORD®) KJV: They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. ASV: There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor; BBE: The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt. DBY: They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor: JPS: There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor; WBS: They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. WEB: There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor, YLT: They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge. | |
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