²⁶ Do ye take deliberacy to check men's sayings, and judge a poor word spoken in vain? ²⁷ Ye fall upon the fatherless, and go about to overthrow your own friend. ²⁸ Wherefore look not only upon me, but upon yourselves: whether I lie, or no.

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Cross References

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 24:9

They spoil the sucking fatherless children, and put the poor in prison,

Joel 3:3

Yea, they have cast lots for my people, the young men have they set in the brothel house, and sold the damsels for wine, that they might have to drink.

Nahum 3:10

yet was she driven away, and brought into captivity: her young children were smitten down at the head of every street, the lots were cast for the most ancient men in her, and all her mighty men were bound in chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

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?

Job 31:21

Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?

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.

Psalm 82:3

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless.

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.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let the noise be heard out of their houses, when the murderer cometh suddenly upon them: For they have digged a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet.

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.

2 Peter 2:3

and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.