Job 6:27

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

²⁶ Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind? ²⁷ Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend. ²⁸ "Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!

Cast Lots

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Job 22:9

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

Job 24:3

They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.

Job 24:9

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

Joel 3:3

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

"You must not afflict any widow or orphan.

Job 29:12

for I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the orphan who had no one to assist him;

Job 31:17

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans --

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

Psalm 7:15

he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

Psalm 82:3

Defend the cause of the poor and the fatherless! Vindicate the oppressed and suffering!

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

Malachi 3:5

"I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me," says the Lord who rules over all.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.