Verse 27

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:9 : 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
  • Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
  • Ps 7:15 : 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
  • Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Exod 22:22-24 : 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
  • Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
  • Ps 82:3 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
  • Job 31:17 : 17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: