Job 24:21

World English Bible (2000)

He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 29:13 : 13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on 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 have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it 18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
  • 1 Sam 1:6-7 : 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she 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, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

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  • Job 15:28-29
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

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

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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  • Exod 22:22
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    22"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

  • Job 24:9-10
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