Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
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- 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
- Neh 5:5 : 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards."
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- Job 24:2-87 verses85%
2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
- Job 24:10-112 verses85%
10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
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9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
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5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
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17 You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;
- Lam 4:3-42 verses75%
3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
- Job 22:6-72 verses74%
6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You haven't given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
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14 There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
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4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
- Ps 82:3-42 verses74%
3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
4 Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."
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7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
- Job 31:16-172 verses73%
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
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28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
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7 In 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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14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
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12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
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23 for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
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21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
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3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
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11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
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2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
- Ps 109:10-112 verses71%
10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
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21 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
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12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
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21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
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10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
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17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
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16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
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22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
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30 The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
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2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
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16 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;