Job 29:12

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 24:4

They turn away the needy; the poor of the earth are forced to hide.

Job 24:9

They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

Job 30:25

Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel by myself, so that the fatherless could not eat of it

Job 31:18

(but from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb);

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw I had help in the gate;

Job 34:28

so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him; and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 68:5

A father of the fatherless and a protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation.

Psalm 72:12

For he will deliver the needy when he cries, the poor also, and him who has no helper.

Psalm 88:4

I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength,

Proverbs 21:13

He who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry out, but will not be heard.

Proverbs 31:8

Speak out for the mute, for the cause of all who are sons of destitution.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him. Is not this what it means to know Me? says the Lord.

Deuteronomy 10:18

He executes the judgment of the orphan and the widow and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

James 1:27

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