Job 31:21

Job's Final Defense Continued

²⁰ if he did not bless me
while warming himself with the fleece from my sheep,
²¹ if I ever cast my vote against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,
²² then let my shoulder blade fall from my back,
and my arm be pulled from its socket.

Help Me

Lifted Up

Job

No

Job 22:9

You sent widows away empty-handed,
and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 29:12

For I rescued the poor man who cried out for help,
and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.

Job 6:27

No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.

Job 24:9

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast;
the nursing child of the poor is seized as collateral.

Proverbs 23:10-11

Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Jeremiah 5:28

They have become fat and sleek.
They have also excelled in evil matters.
They have not taken up cases,
such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper,
and they have not defended the rights of the needy.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who dream up wickedness
and prepare evil plans on their beds!
At morning light they accomplish it
because the power is in their hands.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are good at accomplishing evil:
the official and the judge demand a bribe;
when the powerful man communicates his evil desire,
they plot it together.