Job 29:12

English Standard Version 2016

because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.

Cross References

Psalm 72:12

For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Psalm 68:5

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.

Deuteronomy 10:18

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

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the Lord.

Job 31:21

if I have raised 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 thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

Job 24:9

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against 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 counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,

Proverbs 31:8

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.

Job 30:25

Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 31:18

(for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow),