Job 24:21
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 sore, 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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18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth: They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So does Sheol those who have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
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9 You have sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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6 They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
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9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
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22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
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14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
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16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
- Job 15:28-292 verses73%
28 He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
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2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.
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21 Therefore 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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6 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.
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19 Cursed be he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow. All the people shall say, Amen.
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17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
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2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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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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16 Because he didn't remember to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, The broken in heart, to kill them.
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22 "You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
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9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,
10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
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29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
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34 And a fruitful land into a salt waste, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
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24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
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20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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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.
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16 Sheol, The barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'
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6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
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20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
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4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.
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9 He settles the barren woman in her home, As a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
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10 The soul of the wicked desires evil; His neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
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9 Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
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16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.
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15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
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16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
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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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20 For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
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13 Whoever rewards evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.