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 abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.

For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive."

For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.