²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? ²⁷ Yes, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. ²⁸ Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie.

Phrases

Cast Lots

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Cross References

Job 22:9

Thou hast 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 of the poor.

Joel 3:3

And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Nahum 3:10

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in 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

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Job 29:12

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Job 31:17

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;

Job 31:21

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

Psalm 7:15

He made a pit, and digged it, and hath 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 digged a pit before me, into the midst of which they have fallen themselves. Selah.

Psalm 82:3

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

Proverbs 23:10-11

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Ezekiel 22:7

In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they oppressed the fatherless and the widow.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness they will with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.