Job 29:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

Cross References

Job 24:4

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

Job 24:9

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

Job 30:25

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

Job 31:17

If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;

Job 31:18

For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;

Job 31:21

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Job 34:28

So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

Psalm 68:5

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

Psalm 72:12

For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

Psalm 88:4

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

Proverbs 21:13

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

Proverbs 31:8

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.

Jeremiah 22:16

He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 10:18

Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

James 1:27

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.