Ayub 24:9

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

Anak piatu disentaknya dari pada susu ibunya dan barang yang lagi tinggal pada orang miskin itu diambilnya akan gadai.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ada yang merebut anak piatu dari susu ibunya dan menerima bayi orang miskin sebagai gadai.

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Ada yang merebut anak piatu dari susu ibunya dan menerima bayi orang miskin sebagai gadai.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Kings 4:1, Nehemiah 5:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:26 - to pledge Deuteronomy 24:12 - General Job 6:27 - the fatherless Job 22:6 - For thou Job 31:21 - lifted Proverbs 23:10 - fatherless Jeremiah 22:3 - do no violence Ezekiel 18:7 - hath restored Ezekiel 33:15 - restore

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They pluck the fatherless from the breast,.... Either on purpose to starve it, which must be extremely barbarous; or to sell it to be brought up a slave; or by obliging the mother to wean it before the due time, that she might be the better able to do work for them they obliged her to. Mr. Broughton renders the words, "of mischievousness they rob the fatherless"; that is, through the greatness of the mischief they do, as Ben Gersom interprets it; or through the exceeding mischievous disposition they are of; of which this is a flagrant instance; or

"they rob the fatherless of what remains for him after spoiling n,''

or devastation, through the plunder of his father's substance now dead, which was exceeding cruel:

and take a pledge of the poor; either the poor himself, or his poor fatherless children, see 2 Kings 4:1; or what is "upon the poor" o, as it may be rendered; that is, his raiment, which was commonly taken for a pledge; and, by a law afterwards established in Israel, was obliged to be restored before sunset, that he might have a covering to sleep in, Exodus 22:26;

Exodus 22:26- :.

n משד "per devastationem", some in Munster; "post vastationem", Tigurine version; so Nachmanides Bar Tzemach. o על עני "super inopem", Cocceius, Schultens so Ben Gersom.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They pluck the fatherless from the breast - That is, they steal away unprotected children, and sell them, or make slaves of them for their own use. If this is the correct interpretation, then there existed at that time, what has existed since, so much to the disgrace of mankind, the custom of kidnapping children, and bearing them away to be sold as slaves. Slavery existed in early ages; and it must have been in some such way that slaves were procured. The wonder of Job is, that such people were permitted to live - that God did not come forth and punish them. The fact still exists, and the ground of wonder is not diminished. Africa bleeds under wrongs of this kind; and the vengeance of heaven seems to sleep, though the child is torn away from its mother, and conveyed, amid many horrors, to a distant land, to wear out life in hopeless servitude.

And take a pledge of the poor - Take that, therefore, which is necessary for the comfort of the poor, and retain it, so that they cannot enjoy its use; see the notes at Job 22:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 24:9. They pluck the fatherless from the breast — They forcibly take young children in order that they may bring them up in a state of slavery. This verse is the commencement of a new paragraph, and points out the arbitrary dealings of oppressors, under despotic governors.

Take a pledge of the poor. — Oppressive landlords who let out their grounds at an exorbitant rent, which the poor labourers, though using the utmost diligence, are unable at all times to pay; and then the unfeeling wretch sells then up, as the phrase here is, or takes their cow, their horse, their cart, or their bed, in pledge, that the money shall be paid in such a time. This is one of the crying sins of some countries of Europe.