Job 24:21

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He preys on the barren woman who does not bear children, and he does no good to the widow.

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  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of the one about to perish came upon me, and I made the widow's heart sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16-18 : 16 If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 if I have eaten my morsel alone, without sharing with the fatherless— 18 but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
  • 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 Her rival provoked her severely to irritate her because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival would provoke her, and she would weep and not eat.
  • 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.

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    18Swift upon the surface of the waters they are; their portion is cursed in the land; they do not turn to the way of the vineyards.

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    9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

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    6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

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    9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    10May his children wander and beg, seeking food far from their ruined homes.

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    22Yet God drags away the mighty with His power; though they rise up, they do not trust in their own lives.

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    14If his children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring will not have enough bread.

    15His survivors will be buried in death, and his widows will not weep for them.

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    2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

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    6He does not keep the wicked alive but gives justice to the afflicted.

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    19Cursed is anyone who denies justice to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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    17For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.

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    21He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.

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    2They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

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    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.

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    7Within 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.

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    22If you do afflict them and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

  • Job 24:9-10
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    9They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

    10They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

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    20When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

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