You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.
Job 31:21 - New Revised Standard Version if I have raised my hand against the orphan, because I saw I had supporters at the gate; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, When I saw my help in the gate: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless when I saw [that the judges would be favorable and be] my help at the [council] gate, American Standard Version (1901) If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: Common English Bible if I have lifted my hand against the orphans, when I saw that I had help in the city gate— Catholic Public Domain Version if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I the advantage over him at the gate; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate: |
You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you have crushed.
“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast, and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.
When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square,
whose loins have not blessed me, and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
You would even cast lots over the orphan, and bargain over your friend.
Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.
Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.