Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
The fatherless
Ye dig
Bible References
The fatherless
Job 22:9
You 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 that cried, and the fatherless, and him that 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
You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Psalm 82:3
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they made light of father and mother: in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Ye dig
Psalm 7:15
He made a pit, and dug it, and has 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, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:20
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before you to speak good for them, and to turn away your wrath from them.