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: