Job 22:9

New English Translation

you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

Cross References

Job 24:21

He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

Job 24:3

They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

Job 6:27

Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend.

Psalm 10:15

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.

Psalm 37:17

for evil men will lose their power, but the Lord sustains the godly.

Psalm 94:6

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!

Isaiah 1:23

Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.

Isaiah 10:2

to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

Jeremiah 48:25

Moab’s might will be crushed. Its power will be broken. I, the Lord, affirm it!

Ezekiel 22:7

They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

Ezekiel 30:22

Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Deuteronomy 27:19

‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’