Job 22:9
you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
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- Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
- Job 24:21 : 21 He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.
- Job 31:21 : 21 if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,
- Isa 10:2 : 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.
- Ezek 22:7 : 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.
- Ezek 30:22 : 22 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.
- Mal 3:5 : 5 “I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the resident foreigner and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
- Luke 18:3-5 : 3 There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying,‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4 For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself,‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people, 5 yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”
- Exod 22:21-24 : 21 “You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. 22 “You must not afflict any widow or orphan. 23 If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry, 24 and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Deut 27:19 : 19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
- Ps 10:15 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.
- Ps 37:17 : 17 for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly.
- Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
- Isa 1:17 : 17 Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!
- Isa 1:23 : 23 Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
- Job 29:12-13 : 12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him; 13 the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;
- Job 31:16-18 : 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– 18 but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!
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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.
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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.
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9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
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14 You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.
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11 Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”
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3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
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22 “You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
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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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16 If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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21 if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,
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9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
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9 You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
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10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
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5 He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place.
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24 and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
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17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
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15 Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.
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22 Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,