Job 24:9,10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

They The wicked oppressors; pluck the fatherless from the breast Either out of cruelty, not sparing poor infants, or out of covetousness, not allowing the mother time for the suckling of her infant. They take away the sheaf from the hungry That single sheaf, which the poor man had got with the sweat of his brow, to satisfy his hunger.

Job 24:9-10

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

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;