Job 29:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² because I delivered the poor who cried and the orphan who had no helper.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, the fatherless and him who had none to help him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

Common English Bible

¹² because I rescued the weak who cried out, the orphans who lacked help.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper.

Job 29:12 Cross References

Psalm 72:12

For he delivers the needy when they call, the poor and those who have no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Psalm 68:5

Father of orphans and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Deuteronomy 10:18

who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord.

Job 31:21

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

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone and the orphan has not eaten from it—

Job 24:4

They thrust the needy off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Job 24:9

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

Job 34:28

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—

Psalm 88:4

I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help,

Proverbs 31:8

Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 31:18

for from my youth I reared the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—