Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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- Deuteronomy 24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:10–12 When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you. If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:17–19 You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing. When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.