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
Thou hast sent widows away empty and oppressed the poor fatherless.
Job 24:3
that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
Job 29:12
"For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help.
Job 31:17
Have I eaten my portion alone, that the fatherless hath had no part with me?
Exodus 22:22
Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:
Psalm 82:3
Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.
Malachi 3:5
I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
James 1:27
Pure devotion, and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.
Ye dig
Psalm 7:15
He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.
Psalm 57:6
They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:20
Do they not recompense evil for good, when they dig a pit for my soul? Remember, how that I stood before thee, to speak for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.