Bible verse
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Job 24:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 24.
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.
6 They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.
7 Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
8 Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
10 Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
12 From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
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;
ERV
There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:
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