Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 24:3

"They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow`s ox for a pledge." — Job 24:3 (ASV)

They drive away the ass. —The ass and the ox, the fatherless and the widow presumably having no more than one. He first describes the oppression of the country, and then that of the city (Job 24:12). We seem here to catch a glimpse of the sufferings of some oppressed and subject indigenous people, such as the Canaanites may have been to the Jews, though there is probably no allusion to them. But, in any case, the writer and the speaker seem to have been familiar with some such abject and servile people, who frequented the desert and suffered at the hands of the more powerful tribes. Man’s inhumanity to man is, unhappily, a crime of very long standing.