Job 24:9
They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore.
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- 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 And there cryed a certayne woman of the wyues of the sonnes of the prophetes, vnto Elisa, saying: Thy seruaunt my husband is dead, & thou knowest that thy seruaunt did feare the Lorde: And the creditor is come to fet my two sonnes to be his bondmen.
- Neh 5:5 : 5 And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes.
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- Job 24:2-87 verses85%
2 For some men remoue the landemarkes, robbe men of their cattell, and feede of the same:
3 They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, and take the wydowes oxe for a pledge:
4 They cause the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hyde them selues together.
5 Beholde, as wilde asses in the desert go they foorth to their worke, & ryse betimes to spoyle: Yea the very wildernesse ministreth foode for them & their children.
6 They reape the corne fielde that is not their owne, and let the vineyarde of the vngodly alone.
7 They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.
8 They are wet with the showres of the mountaynes, and embrace the rocke for want of a couering.
- Job 24:10-112 verses85%
10 They let hym go naked without clothing, and haue taken away the sheafe of the hungrie.
11 The poore are fayne to labour in their oyle mylles, yea and to treade in their wyne presses, and yet to suffer thirst.
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9 Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.
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2 Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.
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6 They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death.
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5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,
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17 Thou shalt not peruert the ryght of the strauger, nor of the fatherlesse, nor take a wydowes rayment to pledge:
- Lam 4:3-42 verses75%
3 The dragons geue their young ones sucke with bare brestes: but the daughter of my people is cruel, like the Estriches in the wildernesse.
4 The tongues of the sucking chyldren cleaue to the roofe of their mouthes for very thyrst: the young chyldren aske bread, but there is no man that geueth it them.
- Job 22:6-72 verses74%
6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing.
7 To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
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14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as knyues, to deuour the poore from of the earth, & the needy from among men.
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4 Heare this, O ye that swallow vp the poore, that ye may make the needy of the lande to fayle,
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3 We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.
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27 Ye fall vpon the fatherlesse, and digge a pit to ouerthrowe your owne frende.
- Ps 82:3-42 verses74%
3 Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie.
4 Deliuer the poore and outcast: saue them from the hande of the vngodly.
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7 They gape for breath ouer the head of the poore in the dust of the earth, & peruert the way of the meke: A man and his father will go in to one mayde, to dishonour my holy name.
- Job 31:16-172 verses73%
16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:
17 If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof:
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28 Hereof are they fat and welthy, and are more mischieuous then any other: they minister not the lawe, they make no ende of the fatherlesse cause, yea and they prosper: yet they iudge not the poore according to equitie.
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7 In thee haue they dispised father and mother, in thee haue they oppressed the straunger, in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse.
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14 Surely thou hast seene this for thou beholdest labour and spite: that thou mayest take the matter into thy hands, he that is weake leaueth it for thee, for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.
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12 For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym.
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23 For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence.
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21 If I haue lift vp mine hand against the fatherlesse, when I sawe that I might helpe him in the gate:
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3 One poore man oppressing another by violence, is like a raging rayne that destroyeth the fruite.
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11 Thou shalt leaue thy fatherlesse chyldren behynde thee, and I wyll kepe them, and thy wydowes shal take their comfort in me.
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2 And they couet fieldes, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
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19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not builded them.
- Ps 109:10-112 verses71%
10 Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke foode out of their barren groundes.
11 Let the extortioner bryng into his snare all that he hath: and let straungers spoyle his labour.
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21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyarde, thou shalt not gather the grapes cleane after thee: but leaue them for the straunger, the fatherlesse, and the wydowe.
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19 If I haue seene any perishe for want of clothing, or any poore for lake of rayment:
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12 Furthermore, if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge:
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21 He hath oppressed the barren that can not beare, and vnto the wydow hath he done no good.
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10 Remoue not the olde lande marke, and come not within the fielde of the fatherlesse:
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17 I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth.
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16 Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne riches and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe.
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22 Ye shall trouble no wydowe nor fatherlesse chylde.
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30 But the first borne of the poore shalbe fed, and the simple shall dwell in safetie: Thy roote also wyll I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay the remnaunt.
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2 The vngodly of a wylfulnesse persecuteth the poore: but euery one of them shalbe taken in the craftie wylines that they haue imagined.
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16 Neither hath oppressed any, nor hath withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence: but hath geuen his bread to the hungry, and hath couered the naked with a garment: