Job 31:21

Job's Final Defense Continued

²⁰ If his loins have not thanked me,
And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,
²² Let my shoulder fall from the socket,
And my arm be broken off at the elbow.

Help Me

Lifted Up

Job

No

Job 22:9

“You have sent widows away empty,
And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

Job 6:27

“You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.

Job 24:9

“Others snatch the orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,

Jeremiah 5:28

‘They are fat, they are sleek,
They also excel in deeds of wickedness;
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper;
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother lightly within you. The alien they have oppressed in your midst; the fatherless and the widow they have wronged in you.

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who scheme iniquity,
Who work out evil on their beds!
When morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the power of their hands.

Micah 7:3

Concerning evil, both hands do it well.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.