Job 29:12 Cross References - Thomson

¹² for I saved the poor from the hand of the mighty; and assisted the orphan who had no helper.

²² A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. ²³ If you in anywise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice ²⁴ and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

¹⁸ He administereth justice to the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

² There were some who said, We with our sons and our daughters are many, therefore we will take corn that we may eat and live. ³ There were others who said, As for our fields and our vineyards and our houses, let us mortgage them that we may get corn and eat. ⁴ There were others who said, We have borrowed money to pay the king's tribute, and pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses, ⁵ and now our flesh is the same as that of our brethren, our sons the same as theirs, yet behold we are subjecting our sons and our daughters to be slaves, nay, some of our daughters are already subjected to bondage, and we have no means to redeem them, for our nobles have got our fields and our vineyards. ⁶ Upon hearing their cry and these speeches, I was exceedingly grieved. ⁷ And having consulted in my own mind, I chid the nobles and the chiefs, and said to them, would any man exact of his brother what you exact? Then having assembled a great meeting against them, ⁸ I said to them, We with our free will offerings have purchased' our brethren the Jews who were sold to the nations; and are you going to sell your brethren that they may be sold to us? And when they held their peace and found no answer, ⁹ I said, This thing which you do is not good. It is not in this manner that you are in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of the nations, our enemies. ¹⁰ My brethren and my acquaintances, and I myself, have lent them money and provisions. Let us I pray you relinquish our demands for this. ¹¹ Restore to them, I beseech you, this very day their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive yards, and their houses; and abate the price at which you have sold to each other corn and wine and oil. ¹² Thereupon they said, We will restore, and require nothing of them. We will do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests and having caused them to swear that they would do according to this decree, ¹³ I shook my lap and said, So may God shake every man who will not perform this promise, out of his house and from his labour, and let them be shaken out and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen; and praised the Lord, and the people executed the decree.

⁵ Is not thy wickedness great, and thy sins innumerable? ⁶ Thou hast taken pledges of thy brethren for nought, and hast stripped the naked of their cloathing. ⁷ Thou hast not given drink to the thirsty: but hast robbed the hungry of their morsel. ⁸ Thou hast respected the persons of some and settled them in the land; ⁹ but hast sent widows away empty, and done injustice to orphans.

⁴ They have turned the weak out of the right way; and with one consent the meek of the land are hidden

¹⁷ if I have eaten my morsel alone, and have not shared it with the orphan;

²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support:

⁵ Let them be awed at the presence of him, who is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of them who are widows. God is in a place consecrated to him:

¹² Because he delivered the poor from the oppressor, and the needy who had no helper:

² [J] How long will you judge unjustly; and respect the persons of sinners? [[J] Jehovah [p] the prophet or psalmist.] ³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand.

¹³ He who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear the distressed shall himself cry, and there shall be none to answer.

¹¹ Deliver them who are to be led away to death; and intercede for them who are to be slain, make no delay. ¹² If thou should say, I do not know this man: know that the Lord knoweth the hearts of all: and that he, who gave breath to all, knoweth all things: and will render to every one according to his works.

¹⁶ They did not take cognisance, they did not administer justice to the lowly, nor decide righteously the cause of the needy, is not this owing to thy not knowing me? saith the Lord.

²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and father is this, to take the oversight and care of orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.