Job 29:12

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Job 24:4

They have undermined the way of the poor, and have pressed together the meek of the earth.

Job 24:9

They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.

Job 30:25

Once, I wept over him who was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.

Job 31:17

if I have eaten my morsel of food alone, while orphans have not eaten from it;

Job 31:18

(for from my infancy mercy grew with me, and it came out with me from my mother's womb;)

Job 31:21

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;

Job 34:28

so that they caused the outcry of the needy to reach him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Psalm 68:5

Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.

Psalm 72:12

Behold, these are sinners, and, abounding in this age, they have obtained riches.

Psalm 88:4

I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant:

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever blocks his ears to the outcry of the poor shall also cry out himself, and he will not be heeded.

Proverbs 31:8

Open your mouth for the mute and for all the cases of the sons who are passing through.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the case of the poor and the indigent for their good. Was this not because he knew me, says the Lord?

Deuteronomy 10:18

He accomplishes judgment for the orphan and the widow. He loves the sojourner, and he gives him food as well as clothing.

James 1:27

This is religion, clean and undefiled before God the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their tribulations, and to keep yourself immaculate, apart from this age.