Job 24:3
They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 24:6 : 6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
- Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security. 11 You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security. 12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. 13 You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.
- Deut 24:17-21 : 17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan. 18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this. 19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do. 20 When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow. 21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.
- 1 Sam 12:3 : 3 Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the LORD and before his chosen king. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, and I will return it to you!”
- Job 22:6-9 : 6 “For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked. 7 You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food. 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.
- Job 31:16-17 : 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–
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Job 24:8-103 verses85%
8 They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.
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.
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2 Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.
- Job 24:4-63 verses84%
4 They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.
6 They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
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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.
- 77%
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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6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
- 76%
9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
- 74%
2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
- 74%
31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.
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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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10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
- Amos 2:7-82 verses73%
7 They trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
8 They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!
- Prov 22:22-232 verses73%
22 Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,
23 for the LORD will plead their case and will rob the life those who are robbing them.
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3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
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27 Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
- Deut 24:19-213 verses72%
19 Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do.
20 When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.
21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.
- 72%
4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
- 72%
28 That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
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19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
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28 They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.
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6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
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22 “You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
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21 He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.
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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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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.
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5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
- Deut 24:11-122 verses71%
11 You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.
12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.
- Ps 82:3-42 verses71%
3 Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!
4 Rescue the poor and needy! Deliver them from the power of the wicked!
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10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,
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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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6 “You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
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23 They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.
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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.
- 70%
16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
- 70%
1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”
- 70%
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.
- 70%
29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the resident foreigner and denied them justice.
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19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
- 69%
3 A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.
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14 The LORD comes to pronounce judgment on the leaders of his people and their officials. He says,“It is you who have ruined the vineyard! You have stashed in your houses what you have stolen from the poor.