Job 31:15

Job's Final Defense Continued

¹⁴ What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions? ¹⁵ Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies? ¹⁶ If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

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Job 34:19

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

Proverbs 14:31

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

Proverbs 22:2

The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Nehemiah 5:5

But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

Job 10:3

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Job 10:8-12

Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

Psalm 139:14-16

I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? has not one God made us? why are we, every one of us, acting falsely to his brother, putting shame on the agreement of our fathers?