Job 29:12

Job's Final Defense

¹¹ “For when the ear heard, it called me blessed,
And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,
¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.
¹³ “The blessing of the one ready to perish came upon me,
And I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Job

No

Psalm 72:12

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.

Nehemiah 5:2-13

For there were those who said, “We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain that we may eat and live.”

Job 22:5-9

“Is not your wickedness great,
And your iniquities without end?

Job 24:4

“They push the needy aside from the road;
The poor of the land are made to hide themselves altogether.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel alone,
And the orphan has not shared it

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

Psalm 82:2-4

How long will you judge unjustly
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

Proverbs 24:11-12

Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.

Jeremiah 22:16

“He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then it was well.
Is not that what it means to know Me?”
Declares the Lord.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.