Job 22:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

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  • Job 31:17 : 17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
  • Matt 25:42 : 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.
  • Ezek 18:7 : 7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,
  • Ezek 18:16 : 16 does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,
  • Isa 58:10 : 10 You must actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. Then your light will dispel the darkness, and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 if the members of my household have never said,‘If only there were someone who has not been satisfied from Job’s meat!’–
  • Ps 112:9 : 9 He generously gives to the needy; his integrity endures. He will be vindicated and honored.
  • Prov 11:24-25 : 24 One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty. 25 A generous person will be enriched, and the one who provides water for others will himself be satisfied.
  • Prov 19:17 : 17 The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.
  • Rom 12:20 : 20 Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.
  • Deut 15:7-9 : 7 The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition. 8 Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs. 9 Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned. 10 You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt. 11 There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.

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  • 6 “For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

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    42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink.

    43 I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

    44 Then they too will answer,‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’

  • 16 does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

  • 7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

  • Job 22:8-9
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    8 Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

    9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • 7 I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

  • 11 Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • 5 You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

  • 37 Then the righteous will answer him,‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

  • Job 24:9-11
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    9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

    10 They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

    11 They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.

  • 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

  • 17 The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the LORD, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.

  • 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

  • Mic 6:14-15
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    14 You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

    15 You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

  • 27 If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

  • 3 A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • 6 You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”

  • 14 You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

  • 6 “You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • 7 The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

  • 17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Job 31:16-17
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    16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

    17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–

  • 12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • 14 Bring out some water for the thirsty. You who live in the land of Tema, bring some food for the fugitives.

  • 10 You must actively help the hungry and feed the oppressed. Then your light will dispel the darkness, and your darkness will be transformed into noonday.

  • 22 Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,

  • 4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

  • 16 The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.

  • 7 They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

  • 19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

  • 5 They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

  • 17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • 4 ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

  • 37 You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • 25 “If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

  • 6 For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the LORD; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.

  • 5 The well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman has given birth to seven, but the one with many children has declined.

  • 23 Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

  • 25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say,‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’

  • 2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,

  • 4 We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

  • 12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.