Job 24:9

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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,

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.

GNV

They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

JPS

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

LXXE

They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יִ֭גְזְלוּ מִשֹּׁ֣ד יָת֑וֹם וְֽעַל־עָנִ֥י יַחְבֹּֽלוּ׃

LXX-Br

Ἥρπασαν ὀρφανὸν ἀπὸ μαστοῦ, ἐκπεπτωκότα δὲ ἐταπείνωσαν·

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