Job 6:27
Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 22:9 : 9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
- Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
- Job 24:9 : 9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
- Ps 7:15 : 15 he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.
- Joel 3:3 : 3 and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.
- Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
- Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their adversity and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
- 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.
- Exod 22:22-24 : 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.
- Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)
- Ps 82:3 : 3 Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!
- Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless, 11 for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you.
- Jer 18:20 : 20 Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.
- Jer 18:22 : 22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.
- 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.
- Job 29:12 : 12 for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;
- Job 31:17 : 17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–
- Job 31:21 : 21 if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Job 22:9-102 verses77%
9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
10 That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,
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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.
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26 Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
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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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6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
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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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17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.
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9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
- Prov 6:1-33 verses74%
1 Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger,
2 if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,
3 then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself, because you have fallen into your neighbor’s power: go, humble yourself, and appeal firmly to your neighbor.
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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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4 Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
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14 Disappointing Friends“To the one in despair, kindness should come from his friend even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
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2 No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.
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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.
- Job 24:3-42 verses72%
3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
4 They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
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10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
- Job 22:6-72 verses72%
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.
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6 Indeed, a man will grab his brother right in his father’s house and say,‘You own a coat– you be our leader! This heap of ruins will be under your control.’
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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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15 he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.
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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.
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6 Stop oppressing resident foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.
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18 The one who lacks sense strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.
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22 “You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
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3 Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
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26 For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.
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6 “You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
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3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
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21 those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
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27 The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone– it will come back on him.
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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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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.
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17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–
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9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
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21 So, this is what the LORD says:‘I will assuredly make these people stumble to their doom. Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. Friends and neighbors will die.’
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7 All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him– one who chases words, which are nothing.
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4 But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
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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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4 At whom are you laughing? At whom are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue? You are the children of rebels, the offspring of liars,
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3 Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!
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8 Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
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10 You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen.’
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18 You defend the fatherless and oppressed, so that mere mortals may no longer terrorize them.
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7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.
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5 If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.