Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
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Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
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Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Job 24:5
Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
Job 24:8
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Job 24:10
so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
Job 24:11
They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
Job 24:12
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
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Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
Job 22:6
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Deuteronomy 24:10
When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:11
You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
Deuteronomy 24:12
If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
Deuteronomy 24:15
In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Deuteronomy 24:16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
Ezekiel 18:12
has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
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2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
Leviticus 25:39
“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
Matthew 18:25
But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
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Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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.
Job 6:27
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 31:21
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate;
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.
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.
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.
Psalms 94:6
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 22:3
Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
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Proverbs 25:20
As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
Psalms 35:15
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
Psalms 69:21
They also gave me poison for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
Proverbs 28:3
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
Amos 1:11
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;
Matthew 18:30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.
Luke 10:32
In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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Amos 2:8
They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge. In the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
Ezekiel 18:16
hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 33:15
if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity, he will surely live. He will not die.
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Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
Proverbs 27:13
Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!
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