Job 22:9

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Job 22:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

8 while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

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

10 Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

11 it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

Job 24:21

They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.

Job 29:12

because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

Job 29:13

The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

Job 31:16

If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,

Job 31:17

if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—

Job 31:18

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Exodus 22:21

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22

You must not mistreat any widow or orphan.

Exodus 22:23

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

Exodus 22:24

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Psalms 94:6

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

Ezekiel 22:7

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Luke 18:3

And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”

Psalms 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

Psalms 37:17

For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Ezekiel 30:22

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.