Job 29:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

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 take in pledge the infant of the poor.)

Job 30:25

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

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 31:18

(for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother's womb I guided him);

Job 31:21

if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;

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 68:5

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

Psalm 72:12

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

Psalm 88:4

I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,

Proverbs 21:13

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 31:8

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate.

Jeremiah 22:16

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

Deuteronomy 10:18

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

James 1:27

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