Job 29:13

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.

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Exodus 20:13
“You shall not murder.

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

Deuteronomy 14:29
The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

Deuteronomy 16:11
You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

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

Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Psalms 94:6
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

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!

Isaiah 65:14
Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

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.

Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

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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.

Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

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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Ruth 2:20
Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

Ruth 3:10
He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

2 Samuel 2:5
David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

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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.

Job 24:7
They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

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;

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;

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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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Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

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

Psalms 72:12
For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.

Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

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Proverbs 24:25
but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

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1 Timothy 5:4
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 5:5
Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

1 Timothy 5:9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

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