²⁶ Do you intend to criticize words, and the speeches of one who is hopeless, that are as wind? ²⁷ Yea, you cause anger to fall on the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend. ²⁸ And now, please look on me; for if I lie, it is before your face.

Phrases

Cast Lots

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Cross References

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 24:9

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

Joel 3:3

And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, so that they might drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity, and her young children also were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

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,

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;

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.

Psalm 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not remove the old landmarks, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless;

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.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when You suddenly bring a raiding party on them. For they have dug a pit to take me, and have hidden snares for my feet.

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.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness they will use you for gain with well-turned words; for whom judgment from of old does not linger, and their destruction does not sleep.