Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

Bible References

The fatherless

Job 22:9
Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor who cried, also the fatherless who had none to help him.
Job 31:17
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
Exodus 22:22
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalm 82:3
Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Ye dig

Psalm 7:15
He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.