Job 24:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
  • Job 31:16-18 : 16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose; 17 If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father; 18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
  • 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children; 7 And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.
  • Job 22:9 : 9 You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

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    18They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

    19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

    20The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

  • Job 22:9
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    9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

  • Ps 109:9-10
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    9Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

    10Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

  • Job 24:22
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    22But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

  • Job 27:14-15
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    14If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

    15When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

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    6His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

  • Deut 27:19
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    19Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Isa 9:17
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    17For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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    21Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Job 24:3
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    3They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

  • Ps 109:16
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    16Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

  • Exod 22:22
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    22Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

  • Job 30:24
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    24Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Luke 23:29
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    29For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

  • Ps 107:34
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    34He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

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    12Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

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    20When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.

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    11Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.

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