²⁶ Do you mean to correct what I say? Do you treat the words of a despairing man as wind? ²⁷ “You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.
²⁸ But now be so kind as to look at me. Would I lie to your face?

Phrases

Cast Lots

Names

Job

Lot

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Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty-handed. You crush the arms of the orphans.

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of the orphan. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:9

There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast. They take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

Joel 3:3

They cast lots for my people, and traded a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Nahum 3:10

She went into captivity and was exiled. Her children were smashed to death at every street corner. Soldiers tossed dice for her important men, and all her best men were bound in chains.

Exodus 22:22-24

Do not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Job 29:12

This is because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.

Job 31:17

If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the orphan has not eaten from it,

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had supporters at the gate;

Psalm 7:15

They dig out a pit and fall into the hole that they have made.

Psalm 57:6

They have prepared a net for my steps. I am bowed down. They dig a pit before me. But they have fallen into it.

Psalm 82:3

Defend the weak and fatherless. Protect the rights of the oppressed and the poor.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Do not remove the old landmark (boundry). And do not enter the field of the fatherless.

Jeremiah 18:20

Should good be repaid with evil? For they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before you to speak good on their behalf. I tried to turn away your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let an outcry be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring raiders upon them. For they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.'

Malachi 3:5

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.

2 Peter 2:3

They speak evil words about you because of their extreme greed. They will exploit you with false evil words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle. Their destruction will not delay.