Verse 27

You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:9 : 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.
  • Ps 7:15 : 15 Behold, the wicked conceives evil, is pregnant with mischief, and gives birth to lies.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 They cast lots for my people; they traded a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine, which they drank.
  • Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet she went into exile, carried away into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Exod 22:22-24 : 22 If you do afflict them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. 23 My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless. 24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.
  • Ps 57:6 : 6 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let Your glory be over all the earth.
  • Ps 82:3 : 3 Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless. 11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak on their behalf, to turn Your wrath away from them.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party upon them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I rescued the poor who cried for help, and the orphan who had no helper.
  • Job 31:17 : 17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, without sharing with the fatherless—
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my support in the gate,