²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind. ²⁷ Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig a pit for your friend. ²⁸ Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.

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Cast Lots

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Cross References

Job 22:9

Widows hast thou sent empty away, 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 24:9

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor:

Joel 3:3

and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it.

Nahum 3:10

She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound with chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

Job 29:12

For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

Psalm 7:15

He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.

Psalm 82:3

Judge the poor and the fatherless, do justice to the afflicted and the destitute;

Proverbs 23:10-11

Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 3:5

And 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 false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not.

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