Job 24:9

Modern

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

Traditional

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

Literal

They snatch from the breast the fatherless, and the suckling of the poor they bind with a pledge.

Latin

Vim fecerunt deprædantes pupillos, et vulgum pauperem spoliaverunt.

Hebrew

English

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt: See 2 Kings 4:1; Nehemiah 5:1–5; Matthew 18:25.

This list of criminal behaviors first emphasizes crimes against weak people (24:2–12). Then it examines the criminals themselves (24:13–17).

Nehemiah 5:5
We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
2 Kings 4:1
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”