Job 6:27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig [a pit] for your friend.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 22:9 : 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
- Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
- Job 24:9 : 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- Ps 7:15 : 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made.
- Joel 3:3 : 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
- Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- 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.
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Exod 22:22-24 : 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.
- Ps 82:3 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
- Prov 23:10-11 : 10 ¶ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
- Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, [and] to turn away thy wrath from them.
- Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
- Ezek 22:7 : 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.
- Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him.
- Job 31:17 : 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
- Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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- Job 22:9-102 verses77%
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
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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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26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?
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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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6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder 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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17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
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9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- Prov 6:1-33 verses74%
1 ¶ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
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28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
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4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
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14 ¶ To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
- Job 24:3-42 verses72%
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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10 ¶ Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- Job 22:6-72 verses72%
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
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6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and [let] this ruin [be] under thy hand:
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19 Cursed [be] he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made.
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7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:
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6 [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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18 ¶ A man void of understanding striketh hands, [and] becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
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22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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3 [Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
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26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
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3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
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21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
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27 ¶ Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
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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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16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.
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17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
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21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
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7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth [them with] words, [yet] they [are] wanting [to him].
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4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
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3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
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8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.
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10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
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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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7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
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5 He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.