Job 31:21

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Summary

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Lifted

Ezekiel 22:7

When

Micah 2:1

Micah 7:3

General references

Bible References

Lifted

Surely, the fatherless, ye would assail, and make merchandise of your friend!

Widows, thou hast sent away empty, and, the arms of the fatherless, thou dost crush.

Men tear, from the breast, the fatherless, and, over the poor, they take a pledge;

Because I used to deliver the oppressed who was crying out for aid, the fatherless also, and him that had no helper;

Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;

They have waxed fat, they shine Yea they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless that they might prosper, - Yea justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.

Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression in the midst of thee, - The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:

When

Alas for them who devise iniquity and work wickedness upon their beds, - in the light of the morning, they will execute it, for it is in the power of their hand.

Of wickedness with both hands to make sure, the ruler, doth make demand - and the judge - for a recompense, - and, as for the great man, he, is putting into words the desire of his soul, So have they woven the net!

General references

Thou shalt not pervert the vindication of thy needy one in his quarrel.

And, when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly clear the border of thy field when thou reapest, and, the gleanings of thy field, shalt thou not glean, - for the poor and for the sojourner, shalt thou leave them. I - Yahweh, am your God.

Surely, against me, doth he again and again, turn his hand all the day.

If, a brother or sister, should be naked, and coming short of the daily food,