Job 24:9

They pluck Or, there are who pluck. The reference is to the ruling class who, for some debt perhaps of the dependent, seize the infant of the debtor, in order by selling it or bringing it up as a slave to repay themselves.

take a pledge of the poor The words might mean "take in pledge that which is on the poor," i. e. their scanty clothing. Others refer the words to the preceding inhuman act of plucking the child from the breast and render: "and take this pledge of the poor" (Ew.).