Job 24:9

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

Cross-reference

Job 6:27 Parallel

Job 6:27 accuses friends of casting lots for the fatherless — a similar image of exploiting orphans.

Job 22:6 Contrast

Job 22:6 accuses Job of taking pledges and stripping the poor — the very sins Job now describes as common.

Job 31:21 Contrast

Job 31:21 shows Job protesting that he never raised his hand against the fatherless — the opposite of the oppressors in 24:9.

2 Kings 4:1 Parallel

2 Kings 4:1 shows a creditor taking a widow's sons as slaves — a concrete example of the oppression described here.

Nehemiah 5:5 describes families forced to sell children into slavery — a parallel to the taking of the fatherless.

Exodus 22:26 gives the law about returning a cloak taken as pledge — the very practice Job condemns as oppressive.

Deuteronomy 24:12 commands returning a poor person's pledge before nightfall — a law violated by the oppressors in Job.

Jeremiah 22:3 commands rescuing the fatherless from oppressors — the very injustice Job 24:9 depicts.

Ezekiel 18:7 describes a righteous man who does not take pledges from debtors, contrasting with the oppressors who seize infants for debt in Job 24:9.

Ezekiel 33:15 requires returning pledges taken for debt, directly opposing the seizure of the poor's children in Job 24:9.

Proverbs 23:10 warns against encroaching on the fields of the fatherless — a related form of oppression against orphans.