Job 29:12 Cross References - Rotherham

¹² Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

²² Neither widow nor fatherless, shalt thou humiliate: ²³ if thou, do humiliate, him, when he in anywise crieth out unto me, I will, surely hear, his outcry: ²⁴ so shall kindle mine anger, and I will slay you with the sword,––and your, wives, shall become, widows, and your, sons, fatherless.

¹⁸ executing the vindication of the orphan, and the widow,––and loving a sojourner, giving him food and raiment.

² And there were some who were saying, Our sons and our daughters, are we pledging,––that we may obtain corn, and eat, and keep ourselves alive. ³ And there were some who were saying, Our fields and our vineyards and our houses, are we pledging,––that we may obtain corn in the dearth. ⁴ And there were others who were saying, We have borrowed silver, for the king’s tribute,––[upon] our lands and our vineyards. ⁵ Now, therefore, as is the flesh of our brethren, so is our flesh, as are their children, so are our children. Yet lo! we are putting in subjection our sons and our daughters, for bondservants, yea there are some of our daughters already trodden down, and we are powerless, and, our fields and our vineyards, belong to others.
⁶ And it angered me greatly,––when I heard their outcry, and these words. ⁷ So my heart took counsel unto me and I contended with the nobles and with the deputies, and said to them, A loan on interest––every man to his brother, are ye making,––So I appointed over them a great assembly; ⁸ and I said unto them, We, have bought our brethren the Jews, who had sold themselves unto the nations, according to our ability, and will, ye, even sell your brethren, or shall they sell themselves unto us? And they were silent, and found no answer. ⁹ Then said I, Not good, is the thing which ye are doing,––ought ye not, in the fear of God, to walk, because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ I too, then, my brethren and my young men, might be lending unto them on interest silver and corn! I pray you, let us leave off this lending on interest! ¹¹ Restore, I pray you, unto them this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses,––also the hundredth of silver and corn, new wine and oil, for which ye have been lending to them. ¹² And they said, We will restore them, and, from them, will we require nothing, so, will we do, as thou, art saying. Then called I the priests, and put them on oath, to do according to this promise. ¹³ Also, my lap, shook I out, and said––Thus and thus, may God shake out every man who shall not confirm this promise, out of his house and out of his labour, yea, thus and thus, let him be shaken out and empty,––And all the convocation said, Amen! and praised Yahweh, and the people did according to this promise.

⁵ Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, [are not] thine iniquities? ⁶ Surely then hast been wont to put thy brother in pledge, for nothing, and, the garments of the ill–clad, hast thou stripped off: ⁷ No water––to the weary, hast thou given to drink, and, from the hungry, thou hast withheld bread: ⁸ A man of might, to him, pertaineth the land, and, the favorite, dwelleth therein: ⁹ Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.

⁴ They turn aside the needy out of the way, at once, are the humbled of the land made to hide themselves.

¹⁷ Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;

²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,

⁵ The father of the fatherless, And the advocate of widows, Is God, in his holy habitation.

¹² Because he Rescueth, The needy from the rich, The oppressed, who hath no helper;

² How long will ye judge perversely, And, the countenances of the lawless, uplift? [Selah.] ³ Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted; ⁴ Deliver the weak and the needy, Out of the hand of the lawless, make rescue.

¹³ He that shutteth his ear from the cry of the poor, even he, shall call, and not be answered.

¹¹ Deliver thou such as are being led forth to death, and, them who are tottering to slaughter, oh that thou wouldst hold back! ¹² Though thou say, Lo! we knew not this, Shall not, he that proveth hearts, himself, discern? And, he that formeth thy soul, himself, know? and bring back to a son of earth according to his deed?

¹⁶ [Did he not] plead the cause of the oppressed and the needy, And, then, it was well? Was not, that, to know, me? Demandeth Yahweh.

²⁷ Religious observance, pure and undefiled with our God and Father, is, this––to be visiting orphans and widows in their affliction, unspotted, to keep, himself, from the world.