Job 24:21
He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
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Job 24:21
He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.
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Exodus 20:7
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
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Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
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.
Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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;
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 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 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!
Jeremiah 7:6
if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt,
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.
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Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21
When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
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1 Samuel 1:6
Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.
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1 Samuel 1:7
So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
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Job 21:17
“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
Job 21:18
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
Job 21:19
You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
Job 21:20
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:21
For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
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Job 24:22
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
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Job 24:24
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
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Psalms 138:6
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
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Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
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Proverbs 17:21
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.
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Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
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Isaiah 54:1
“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth! Break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.
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Mark 3:4
He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do harm? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent.
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Mark 3:30
—because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
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Luke 18:3
A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’
Luke 18:4
He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
Luke 18:5
yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”
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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.
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