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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Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Exodus 3:9
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

Job 22:10
Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

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.

Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Psalms 9:12
For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 10:17
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Psalms 102:20
to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death,

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Exodus 18:21
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Exodus 22:21
“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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.

Exodus 23:6
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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 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.

1 Samuel 8:3
His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

Jeremiah 22:15
“Should you reign because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Jeremiah 22:17
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

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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Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

Ruth 4:1
Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down.

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Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

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 24:21
He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

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,

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.

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;

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.

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.

Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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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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2 Samuel 14:4
When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”

2 Kings 6:26
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”

2 Kings 6:27
He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

2 Kings 6:28
Then the king asked her, “What is your problem?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

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1 Kings 21:11
The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

1 Kings 21:14
Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”

1 Kings 21:15
When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

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Ezra 1:8
even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

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Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Nehemiah 5:3
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Nehemiah 5:6
I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Nehemiah 5:7
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Nehemiah 5:10
I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

Nehemiah 5:11
Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

Nehemiah 5:12
Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

Nehemiah 5:13
Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

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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Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Job 23:7
There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Job 23:11
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Job 27:6
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Psalms 40:8
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Psalms 112:1
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Isaiah 64:5
You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

Romans 7:22
For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,

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Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

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Job 11:14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Job 15:34
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

Psalms 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

Isaiah 1:28
But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

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Job 19:9
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Psalms 49:16
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

Psalms 89:44
You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

Isaiah 61:6
But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

Hosea 9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

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Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

Job 29:2
“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

Job 29:3
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

Job 29:4
as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

Job 29:5
when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

Job 29:6
when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

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Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

Psalms 72:3
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

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Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Psalms 119:92
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Proverbs 21:15
It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

John 4:34
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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Psalms 10:14
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalms 102:17
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

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

Proverbs 22:16
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:23
for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Luke 18:2
saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.

Luke 18:6
The Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

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Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

1 Samuel 2:7
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 36:6
He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.

Psalms 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

Psalms 109:31
For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

Isaiah 11:4
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Luke 7:22
Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Hebrews 13:3
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

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Jeremiah 22:18
Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They won’t lament for him, saying, ‘Ah my brother!’ or, ‘Ah sister!’ They won’t lament for him, saying ‘Ah lord!’ or, ‘Ah his glory!’

Jeremiah 22:19
He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

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Jeremiah 37:13
When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

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Jeremiah 38:7
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),

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Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,

Isaiah 3:3
the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.

Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

Lamentations 1:19
“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.

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Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Amos 5:14
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Zechariah 7:9
“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Mark 12:32
The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he;

Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Mark 12:34
When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.

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Ephesians 5:1
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Hebrews 7:25
Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

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