Job 24:3 meaning and explanation

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

Job 24:3, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering his friends in a long speech that asks why God delays judgment while the wicked prosper. In verse 3 he lists concrete injustices: the powerful seize the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow's ox as a pledge, a deposit held against a debt.

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