Job 29:12

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 72:12

For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled from God and the Father is this, to go help the orphaned and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy man, then it was well. Was not this to know me? says LORD.

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 24:4

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Job 24:9

There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge 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 reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,

Proverbs 31:8

Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 31:18

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and her I have guided from my mother's womb);