Job 29:12

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

Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

For there were who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain that we may eat and live.

For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah.

He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.