Job 36:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ will not reject the innocent, nor save the wicked: and that he will administer justice to the oppressed.

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.

¹⁵ and that they may perish in battle, and the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

²² and their enemies shall be clothed with shame; and the dwellings of the wicked shall come to naught.

⁷ Why do the wicked live and grow old, abounding in wealth? ⁸ Their crops are to their wish, and their children before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses flourish and they have no dread; and a scourge from the Lord is not upon them.

³⁰ Because the wicked is reserved for a day of destruction: let them be carried to prison for the day of his indignation.

¹² for I saved the poor from the hand of the mighty; and assisted the orphan who had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him who was perishing came upon me: and the mouth of the widow blessed me. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness and cloathed myself with justice as with a mantle. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. ¹⁶ I was a father to those in distress; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. ¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous; and plucked the prey from betwixt their teeth.

¹² for in making inquisition for blood, he had them in remembrance; he forgot not the prayer of the distressed.

¹⁴ Thou seest [for thou observest mischief and wrath]; That they have delivered themselves into thy hands. To thee the poor hath committed himself; Thou art the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break the arm of the sinful and malicious man. Let his sin be sought out till no more can be found.

²³ But thou, O God, wilt drag them down to the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But as for me I will trust in thee, Lord.

⁴ Let him judge righteously such of the people as are distressed; and save the children of the needy: and humble oppressors:

¹² Because he delivered the poor from the oppressor, and the needy who had no helper: ¹³ he will spare the afflicted and needy; and save the lives of those in distress; ¹⁴ from usury and injustice he will redeem their lives; and their name will be precious in his sight:

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods. 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.

¹² I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the needy:

²² Oppress not the needy because he is poor: nor treat with disrespect at the gates one who is weak. ²³ For the Lord will judge his cause; and thou shouldst preserve thy life safe and secure.

⁴ but he will administer justice to the lowly, and work conviction in the meek of the earth. And he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with a breath from his lips destroy the wicked.

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy? ² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from, temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgment, to be punished;