King James Version

Job 24:9

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

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יִ֭גְזְלוּyigzelvrobגָּזַלverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “rob”, an unfinished actionH1497to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or robcatch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.מִשֹּׁ֣דmishodfrom breastשַׁדpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “from breast”, the ordinary formH7699the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)breast, pap, teat.יָת֑וֹםyatomfatherlessיָתוֹםnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “fatherless”, the ordinary formH3490a bereaved personfatherless (child), orphan.וְֽעַלvealand sucking childעוּלconjunction, preposition — “and sucking child”H5764a babesucking child, infant.עָנִ֥יaniafflictedעָנִיadjective, adjective, masculine, singular, absolute — “afflicted”, the ordinary formH6041depressed, in mind or circumstancesafflicted, humble, lowly, needy, poor.יַחְבֹּֽלוּyachbolvdestroyחָבַלverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “destroy”, an unfinished actionH2254to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind; specifically, by a pledge; figuratively, to pervert, destroy; also to writhe in pain (especially of parturition)[idiom] at all, band, bring forth, (deal) corrupt(-ly), destroy, offend, lay to (take a) pledge, spoil, travail, [idiom] very, withhold.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

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

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

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

World English Bible

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Darby Translation

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

Douay-Rheims

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

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

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

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

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

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἥρπασαν ὀρφανὸν ἀπὸ μαστοῦ, ἐκπεπτωκότα δὲ ἐταπείνωσαν·