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“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?
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“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless
And bargain away your friend.
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“Now please look at me,
And see if I lie to your face [for you know that I would not].

Phrases

Cast Lots

Names

Job

Lot

No

Cross References

Job 22:9

“You have sent widows away empty-handed,
And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 24:3

“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9

“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].

Joel 3:3

“They have also cast lots for My people,
And have traded a boy for a prostitute
And have sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she became an exile;
She went into captivity.
Her young children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.

Job 29:12

Because I rescued the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel [of food] alone,
And did not share it with the orphan

Job 31:21

If I have lifted my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw [that the judges would be] my help at the [council] gate,

Psalm 7:15

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

Psalm 57:6

They set a net for my steps;
My very life was bowed down.
They dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah.

Psalm 82:3

Vindicate the weak and fatherless;
Do justice and maintain the rights of the afflicted and destitute.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil?
Yet they have dug a pit for me.
Remember [with compassion] that I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
To turn Your anger away from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let an outcry be heard from their houses
When You suddenly bring [a troop of] raiders upon them,
For they have dug a pit to capture me
And have hidden snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away the alien [from his right], and those who do not fear Me [with awe-filled reverence],” says the Lord of hosts.

James 1:27

Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].

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