Job 29:12

Easy To Read Version

Why? Because when the poor person\par cried out for help, I helped.\par And I helped the child that had no parents\par and no one to care for him.\par

Cross References

Job 24:4

They force the poor people to wander\par from place to place without a home.\par All the poor people are forced to hide\par from these evil people.\par

Job 24:9

Evil people take a nursing baby from its mother.\par They take a poor person’s child\par as security {\cf2\super [39]} for a loan.\par

Job 30:25

God, you know that I have cried for people in trouble.\par You know that my heart was very sad for poor people.\par

Job 31:17

I have never been selfish with my food.\par I always gave food to orphans.\par

Job 31:18

All my life,\par I have been like a father\par to children that had no father.\par All my life,\par I have taken care of widows.\par

Job 31:21

I never shook my fist at an orphan\par when I saw him at the gate\par asking for help. {\cf2\super [65]} \par

Job 34:28

Those bad people hurt poor people,\par and made them cry to God for help.\par And God hears that cry for help.\par

Psalm 68:5

In his holy temple,\par God is like a father to orphans. {\cf2\super [390]} \par God takes care of widows. {\cf2\super [391]} \par

Psalm 72:12

Our king helps the helpless.\par Our king helps poor, helpless people.\par

Psalm 88:4

People already treat me like a dead man,\par like a man too weak to live.\par

Proverbs 21:13

If a person refuses to help poor people, then there will be no help for him when he needs it.

Proverbs 31:8

\{If a person can’t help himself, then you should help him.\} Speak up for a person who can’t speak! Help people who are in trouble!

Jeremiah 22:16

Josiah helped the poor and needy people.\par Josiah did that,\par so everything went well for him.\par Jehoiakim, what does it mean\par “to know God?”\par It means living right and being fair.\par That is what it means to know me.\par This message is from the Lord.\par

Deuteronomy 10:18

He helps children that have no parents. He helps widows. [63] He loves even the strangers in our country. He gives them food and clothes.

James 1:27

The kind of religion (worship) that God accepts is this: caring for orphans {\cf2\super [2]} or widows {\cf2\super [3]} who need help, and keeping yourself free from the world’s \{evil\} influence. This is the kind of religion (worship) that God accepts as pure and good.