Job 24:21

American Standard Version (1901)

He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16-18 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof 18 (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);
  • 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb. 7 And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
  • Job 22:9 : 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

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