Job 31:16

Modern English Version

“If I have kept the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

Cross References

Job 20:19

because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house that he did not build.

Job 5:16

So the helpless has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Psalm 112:9

He has given freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be exalted with honor.

Psalm 119:123

My eyes fail from watching for Your salvation, and for the fulfillment of Your righteous word.

Psalm 119:82

My eyes fail from reading Your word, saying, “When will You comfort me?”

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; my eyes grow dim while I wait for my God.

Exodus 22:22

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

Proverbs 22:22

Exploit not the poor, because he is poor, and oppress not the afflicted at the gate,

Proverbs 31:20

She extends her palms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Isaiah 38:14

Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O  Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed us, watching vainly for help; in our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

Ezekiel 18:16

nor has he oppressed anyone, has not withheld a pledge, nor has he devastated by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

Leviticus 25:35

If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, then you shall support him as if he were a foreigner or a sojourner, so that he may live with you.

Matthew 23:14

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and for pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive the greater condemnation.

Matthew 25:17

So also, he who had received two gained another two.

Luke 16:21

desiring to be fed the crumbs falling from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

Acts 11:29

Then every disciple, according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea.

Galatians 2:10

Only they requested that we should remember the poor, which I also was eager to do.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do.

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.