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 didst send away widows empty, and the arms of the orphans will be broken.
Job 24:3
They will lead away the ass of the orphans, and they will take for pledge, the widow's ox.
Job 29:12
For I shall deliver the poor crying, and the orphan, and none helping to him.
Job 31:17
And eating my morsel alone, and the orphan ate not from it;
Exodus 22:22
Every widow and orphan ye shall not afflict.
Psalm 82:3
Judge ye the poor one, and the orphan: do justice to the humble one and the poor one
Proverbs 23:10
Thou shalt not remove the old bound; and into the field of the orphans thou shalt not come:
Ezekiel 22:7
They made light of father and mother in thee: they did with violence to the stranger in the midst of thee: they oppresed the orphan and the widow in thee.
Malachi 3:5
And I came near to you for judgment: and I was a swift witness against those practicing magic, and against those committing adultery, and against those swearing to falsehood, and against those oppressing the hire of the hireling, the widow and the orphan, and those turning aside the stranger, and they feared not me, said Jehovah of armies.
James 1:27
Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

Ye dig

Psalm 7:15
He dug a pit, and he will dig it out, and he will fall into the pitfall he will make.
Psalm 57:6
They prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bent down: they dug a pit before me, they fell into the midst of it. Silence.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be requited for good? for they dug a pit for my soul. Remember my standing before thee to speak good for them, to turn back thy wrath from them.