Job 29:12

The Scriptures 1998

because I rescued the poor who cried out, and the fatherless who had no helper.

Cross References

Job 24:4

they turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth have hidden together.

Job 24:9

They snatch away 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 my being not grieved for the poor?

Job 31:17

or eaten my piece of bread by myself, and the fatherless did not eat of it –

Job 31:18

but from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided her –

Job 31:21

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

Job 34:28

so as to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him; for He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 68:5

Father of the fatherless, And Right-ruler of widows, Is Elohim in His set-apart dwelling.

Psalm 72:12

For He delivers the needy when he cries, And the poor, who has no helper.

Psalm 88:4

I have been reckoned among those Who go down to the pit; I have become like a man Who has no strength,

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, Let him also cry and not be heard.

Proverbs 31:8

Open your mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all the sons of the departed.

Jeremiah 22:16

“He defended the cause of the poor and needy – then it was well. Was this not to know Me?” declares יהוה.

Deuteronomy 10:18

“He executes right-ruling for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and a garment.

James 1:27

Clean and undefiled religion before the Elohim and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.