⇧

Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;

--------------------

Job 31:22
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Job 6:27
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

Proverbs 23:10
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Proverbs 23:11
for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Isaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

-----

Job 29:7
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

Job 5:4
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

-----

Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

-----

Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

-----

Psalms 7:5
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

Public Domain