Job 24:9
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 24:9 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 24:9 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 24:9 — KJV
“They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.”
— Job 24:9 (KJV)
Job 24:9 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 24:9
“Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:”
Shares key themes with Job 24:9: fatherless, take, pledge
“To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!”
Shares key themes with Job 24:9: fatherless, take, poor
“They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.”
Shares key themes with Job 24:9: fatherless, take, pledge
“If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:”
Shares key themes with Job 24:9: take, pledge
“And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:”
Shares key themes with Job 24:9: breast, take
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