John Trapp on Job 24:9

Verſe 9. They pluck the fatherleſs from the breſt] What can be more to be pitied than a fatherleſs ſuckling? Who leſs to be moleſted or violenced than the Mother doing that office to her babe? In the Pariſian Maſſacre, one of the murtherers took a little one in his arms, who ſmiled upon him and plaid with his beard; yet this barbarous wretch was ſo far from compaſſion, that he wounded it with his dagger,Act. & Mon. and ſo caſt it all gore blood into the River. The ſtory of the Infant of the Iſle of Garriſer, thrown back into the fire, out of which it had ſprawled, is well known.Ibid. So is the ſavage inhumanity of that mercileſs Minerius the Popes Champion, who at Merindol[illegible: 1 letter] in France, cut off the Paps of many which gave ſuck to their Children;Ibid. p. 868. which looking for ſuck at their Mothers breſts, being dead before, died alſo for hunger. Well therefore might our Saviour ſay, Beware of men, Mart. 10.17. It had been better the Indies had been given to the Devils of hell, ſaid those poor Natives, than to thoſe bloody Spaniards, who daſhed the Mother in pieces upon their Children, as once at Betharbel, Hoſ. 10.14.

And take a pledge from the poor] Miſery, which ſhould beget pity in them, begetteth but audacity, and inviteth them to ruine the poor, and fill their houſes with their ſpoyles. Some render it thus, They take the poor for a pledge; ſc. putting them to their ranſom, and mean while enſlaving them.