The fatherless child is snatched ¹  from the breast, ²  the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. ³ 

biblegateway Job 24:9

"Others snatch the orphan from the breast, And against the poor they take a pledge.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

"People snatch the nursing orphan from a breast and take a poor woman’s baby as security for a loan.

biblegateway Job 24:9

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

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)

bibleoremus Job 24:9

"There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast, and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

They snatch the fatherless infant from the breast and take the poor person's child in pledge.

biblegateway Job 24:9

" Some snatch the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge from the poor.

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

biblegateway Job 24:9

The fatherless child is snatched ¹  from the breast, ²  the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. ³ 

¹ tn The verb with no expressed subject is here again taken in the passive: “they snatch” becomes “[child] is snatched.”

² tn This word is usually defined as “violence; ruin.” But elsewhere it does mean “breast” (Isa 60:16; 66:11), and that is certainly what it means here.

³ tc The MT has a very brief and strange reading: “they take as a pledge upon the poor.” This could be taken as “they take a pledge against the poor” (ESV). Kamphausen suggested that instead of עַל (’al, “against”) one should read עוּל (’ul, “suckling”). This is supported by the parallelism. “They take as pledge” is also made passive here.