Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
General references
Bible References
Lifted
Job 6:27
Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him,
Proverbs 23:10
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
When
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
General references
Exodus 23:6
"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
Leviticus 23:22
"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'"
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,