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Job 22:9

Catholic Public Domain Version

You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.

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For he has fed on the barren, who does not bear fruit, and he has not done good to the widow.

They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.

if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I the advantage over him at the gate;

You encroach upon the orphan, and you strive to undermine your friend.

For I said, "Lest at any time, my enemies might rejoice over me," and, "While my feet are being shaken, they have spoken great things against me."

Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us.

Learn to do good. Seek judgment, support the oppressed, judge for the orphan, defend the widow.

Your leaders are unfaithful, the associates of thieves. They all love gifts; they pursue rewards. They do not judge for orphans, and the widow's case is not brought before them.

in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.

The horn of Moab has been cut away, and his arm has been crushed, says the Lord.

They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.

Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will shatter his strong arm, which has already been broken. And I will cast the sword away from his hand.

And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you consume the houses of widows, praying long prayers. Because of this, you shall receive the greater judgment.

Cursed be he who subverts the judgment of the new arrival, the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.




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