Verse 27

Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
  • Job 24:9 : 9 They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.
  • Ps 7:15 : 15 He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.
  • Joel 3:3 : 3 And they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy in exchange for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.
  • Nah 3:10 : 10 Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Exod 22:22-24 : 22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. 23 If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; 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 dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.
  • Ps 82:3 : 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.
  • Prov 23:10-11 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless: 11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be repaid for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
  • Ezek 22:7 : 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  • Job 29:12 : 12 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and the one who had no helper.
  • Job 31:17 : 17 Or have eaten my portion alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;
  • Job 31:21 : 21 If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate;