Job 24:9
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
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- 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
- Neh 5:5 : 5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.
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- Job 24:2-87 verses85%
2 The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.
3 They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
4 The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.
6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
7 They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
- Job 24:10-112 verses85%
10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.
11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.
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9 You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
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2 Who 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.
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6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
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5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
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17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
- Lam 4:3-42 verses75%
3 Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.
4 The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
- Job 22:6-72 verses74%
6 For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
7 You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.
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14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
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4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
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3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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27 Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.
- Ps 82:3-42 verses74%
3 Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.
4 Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.
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7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
- Job 31:16-172 verses73%
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;
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28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
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7 In 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.
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14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
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12 For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.
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23 For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.
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21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
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3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
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11 Put 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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2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
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19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
- Ps 109:10-112 verses71%
10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
11 Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.
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21 When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.
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19 If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
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12 If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;
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21 He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.
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10 Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
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17 By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.
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16 He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.
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22 Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
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30 And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.
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2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
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16 Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;