Job 29:12

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

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Leviticus 23:22
“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field. You must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

Deuteronomy 16:18
You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

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

Job 22:5
Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

Psalms 82:1
God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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

Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

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Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.

Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Job 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.

Job 30:1
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

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Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

Psalms 72:14
He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

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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.

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

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2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

2 Timothy 1:17
but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me

2 Timothy 1:18
(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

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