Job 30:25

Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God

²⁴ Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. ²⁵ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? ²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Poor and Needy

Time of Trouble

Deeply Grieved

Job

Lot

Psalm 35:13-14

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 31:16-21

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Psalm 12:1

To the chief Musician upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Proverbs 14:21

He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

Proverbs 14:31

He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoreth him hath mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 17:5

He that mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 19:17

He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth to the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Proverbs 28:8

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Isaiah 58:7-8

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou shouldst bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou shouldst cover him; and that thou shouldst not hide thyself from thy own flesh?

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Daniel 4:27

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thy iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Luke 19:41

And when he had come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

John 11:35

Jesus wept.

2 Corinthians 9:9

(As it is written, He hath dispersed; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.