Job 24:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

He does evil to the barren who does not bear, and shows no kindness to the widow.

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  • Job 29:13 : 13 The blessing of a dying man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
  • Job 31:16-18 : 16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail; 17 Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it; 18 (For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
  • 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her fret, because the LORD had closed her womb. 7 And so he did year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore Hannah wept and did not eat.
  • Job 22:9 : 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

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  • Job 24:18-20
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    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does the grave those who have sinned.

    20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.

  • Job 22:9
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    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Ps 109:9-10
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    9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    10Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

  • Job 24:22
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    22He draws also the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no man is sure of life.

  • Job 27:14-15
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    14If his children multiply, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

    15Those who survive him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Job 36:6
    72%

    6He does not preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the poor.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Isa 9:17
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    17Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men, nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ps 34:21
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    21Evil shall slay the wicked: and those who hate the righteous shall be desolate.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Job 24:3
    71%

    3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

  • Ps 109:16
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    16Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the brokenhearted.

  • Exod 22:22
    71%

    22You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

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

    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Job 30:24
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    24However, He will not stretch out His hand to the grave, though they cry out in their destruction.

  • Luke 23:29
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    29For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.

  • Ps 107:34
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    34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

  • Ps 109:12
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    12Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

  • Deut 24:20-21
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    20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

    21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

  • Job 20:19
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    19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build;

  • Prov 30:16
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    16The grave, and the barren womb, the earth that is never filled with water, and the fire that never says, It is enough.

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Job 15:20
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    20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

  • Ps 113:9
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    9He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.

  • Prov 21:10
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    10The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

  • Ps 146:9
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    9The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

  • Job 18:16-19
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    16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

    17His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

    19He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Job 39:16
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    16She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without fear;

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    11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20For there shall be no reward for the evil man; the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • Prov 17:13
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    13Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.