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, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, 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
"You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Psalm 82:3
"Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Proverbs 23:10
Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Malachi 3:5
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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Armies.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Ye dig
Psalm 7:15
He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.
Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst 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 you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.