Job 24:3

Job: Judgment for the Wicked

2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. 4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

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Berean Standard Bible
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
American Standard Version (1901)
They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Bible in Basic English
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
Free Bible Version
They steal the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as security for a debt.
King James (Authorized) Version
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Translation for Translators
Some ◄take away/steal► the donkeys that belong to orphans, and they take widow’s oxen to guarantee that the widows will pay back the money that they loaned to those widows.
Unlocked Literal Bible
They drive away the donkey of those without fathers; they take the widow's ox as security.
Noah Webster Bible
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
World English Bible
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Young's Literal Translation
The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,