Job 24:3

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

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  • Deut 24:6 : 6 Do not take a pair of millstones, not even the upper one, as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person's livelihood as a pledge.
  • Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge. 11 You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you. 12 If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight. 13 Return their pledge by sunset so that they may sleep in their own garment and bless you; this will be considered a righteous act before the LORD your God.
  • Deut 24:17-21 : 17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge. 18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this. 19 When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
  • 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Here I am. Testify against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded or oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes to wrongdoing? If so, I will restore it to you.
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But the powerful man owns the land, and the honored man dwells in it. 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.
  • Job 31:16-17 : 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—

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:8-10
    3 verses
    85%

    8They are drenched by the mountain rains and embrace the rocks for lack of shelter.

    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.

  • Job 24:2
    84%

    2People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

  • Job 24:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

    6In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Isa 10:2
    78%

    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.

  • Deut 24:17
    77%

    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

  • Ps 94:6
    77%

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

  • Job 22:9
    76%

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

  • Mic 2:2
    74%

    2They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Deut 28:31
    74%

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

  • Ezek 22:7
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 23:10
    73%

    10Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.

  • Amos 2:7-8
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    73%

    7'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'

    8'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'

  • Prov 22:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate.

    23For the LORD will plead their case and will rob of life those who rob them.

  • Lam 5:3
    72%

    3We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

  • Job 6:27
    72%

    27You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

  • Deut 24:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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

    21When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

  • Amos 8:4
    72%

    4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • Jer 5:28
    72%

    28They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • Deut 27:19
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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.'

  • Gen 34:28
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    28They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.

  • Deut 24:6
    71%

    6Do not take a pair of millstones, not even the upper one, as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person's livelihood as a pledge.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

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

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21He preys on the barren woman who does not bear children, and he does no good to the widow.

  • Job 22:6
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    6For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Isa 1:23
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    23Your rulers are rebellious and companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's case never comes before them.

  • Job 5:5
    71%

    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • Deut 24:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

    12If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

  • Ps 82:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

    4Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

  • Exod 22:10
    70%

    10the issue between them will be settled by an oath before the Lord that the neighbor has not taken the other’s property. The owner must accept this, and no restitution is required.

  • Job 31:16
    70%

    16If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Exod 23:6
    70%

    6Do not deny justice to your poor among you in their lawsuit.

  • Isa 5:23
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    23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the righteous!

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
    70%

    16He will take your male and female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and use them for his own work.

  • Amos 4:1
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    1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your masters, 'Bring us something to drink!'

  • Exod 22:24
    70%

    24If 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.

  • Ezek 22:29
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    29The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

  • Job 20:19
    70%

    19For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house he did not build.

  • Prov 28:3
    69%

    3A poor man who oppresses the needy is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

  • Isa 3:14
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    14The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of His people: 'It is you who have ruined the vineyard; the plunder taken from the poor is in your houses.'