🌪️WEB · Job 24:3
What does Job 24:3 mean?
"They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge."
— Job 24:3 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
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