Job 31:17
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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- Deut 15:11 : 11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
- Deut 15:14 : 14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
- Neh 8:10 : 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
- Job 22:7 : 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
- Job 29:12-16 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
- Ezek 18:7 : 7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
- Ezek 18:16 : 16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
- Luke 11:41 : 41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
- John 13:29 : 29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
- Acts 4:32 : 32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
- Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
- Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
- 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
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16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
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16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
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9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
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3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
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25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
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7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
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7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
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14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
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2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
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27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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7 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
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10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
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3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
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17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
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13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
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9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
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14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
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3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
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3 But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
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10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
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27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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38 This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
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4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
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13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
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9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,