Job 29:12 Cross References - LITV

¹² For I delivered the poor who cried for help and the orphan who had no helper to him.

²² You shall not afflict an orphan or a widow. ²³ If you afflict him, if he at all cries to Me, I will surely hear his cry, ²⁴ and My anger shall glow, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall become widows, and your sons orphans.

¹⁸ He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, to give to him food and clothing.

² For some were saying, With our sons and our daughters, we are many. let us take up grain for them, so that we may eat and live. ³ Some also were saying, We have mortgaged our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us take up grain because of the famine. ⁴ And some were saying, We have borrowed silver for the king's tax, on our fields, and our vineyards, ⁵ yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers; as their sons, so are our sons; and, behold, we are bringing our sons and our daughters into bondage, to be slaves; yea, there are some of our daughters brought into bondage. And there is no power for our hand, and our fields and our vineyards are to other men. ⁶ And when I heard their cry, and these words, I was very angry. ⁷ Then my heart ruled within myself, and I contended with the nobles and the magistrates. And I said to them, You are each man lending at interest, from his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word. ⁹ Also I said, The thing you do is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ Likewise, my brothers and my servants are lending them silver and grain. I beg you, let us leave off this interest. ¹¹ I beg you, even today give back to them their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses; also the hundredth part of their silver, and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that you have taken from them. ¹² And they said, We will restore, and will ask nothing from them. So we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this word. ¹³ Also I shook my lap, and I said, So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not do this thing; even may he be shaken out this way and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this thing.

⁵ Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquities? ⁶ For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and you have stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ You have not given water to the faint to drink, and you withheld food from the hungry. ⁸ And the earth is to him, to the armed man; and the honored one lives in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away empty, and have crushed the arms of orphans.

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth have hidden together.

¹⁷ or have eaten my bit alone, and the orphan has not eaten it,

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the orphan, when I watched over my help in the gate;

⁵ In His holy dwelling God is a father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows.

¹² For He shall save the needy who cries, and the poor with no helper.

² Until when will you judge unjustly, and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. ⁴ Deliver the poor and needy; save out of the hand of the wicked.

¹³ Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he himself shall also call, and shall not be answered.

¹¹ if you hold back to deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling for killing. ¹² For you say, Behold, we did not know this. Does not He who weighs the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He not know? Yea, He repays to a man according to his work.

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy, then it was well. Was this not to know Me, says Jehovah?

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.