3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
3 They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
3 They rip off the poor and exploit the unfortunate,
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox as a pledge.
3 They take the orphan's donkey and demand the widow's ox as security for a loan.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 24:3
Commentary on Job 24:1-12
(Read Job 24:1-12)
Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, "God layeth not folly to them;" that is, he does not at once send his judgments, nor make them examples, and so manifest their folly to all the world. But he that gets riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool, Jeremiah 17:11.