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 ass of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 29:12
For I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Job 31:17
or have eaten my bit 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
Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Ye dig
Psalm 7:15
He dug a pit and bored 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, they have fallen into it. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:20
Should evil be repaid for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before You to do good for them, and to turn away Your wrath from them.