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 your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.