Job 29:12 Cross References - TKJU

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

²² You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ²³ If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴ and My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

¹⁸ He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.

² For there were that said, "We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: Therefore we take up grain for them, that we may eat, and live. ³ Some also there were that said, "We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the dearth. ⁴ There were also that said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that on our lands and vineyards. ⁵ Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: And, see, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought to bondage already: Neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards. ⁶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. ⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, "We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, which were sold to the heathen; and will you even sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. ⁹ Also I said, "It is not good that you do: Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? ¹⁰ I likewise, and my brothers, and my servants, might exact of them money and grain: I implore you, let us leave off this usury. ¹¹ Restore, I implore you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that you exact of them. ¹² Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise. ¹³ Also I shook my lap, and said, "So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performs not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, "Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

⁵ Is not your wickedness great? And your iniquities infinite? ⁶ For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. ⁷ You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. ⁸ But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelled in it. ⁹ You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth hide themselves together.

¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it;

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

¹² For He shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.

² How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. ³ Defend the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and needy. ⁴ Deliver the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

¹³ Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

¹¹ If you forbear to deliver those that are drawn to death, and those that are ready to be slain; ¹² if you say, "Behold, we did not know it"; does He that ponders the heart not consider it? And He that keeps your soul, does He not know it? And shall He not render to every man according to his works?

¹⁶ He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: Was not this known to me?" said the LORD.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.