Job 24:9 meaning and explanation

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

Job 24:9, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering his friends, arguing that injustice runs unchecked in the world. In this verse he describes creditors seizing a nursing child as payment for a debt, tearing an infant from its mother's breast.

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