They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Job 29:12 - Revised Standard Version because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless who had none to help him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Because I delivered the poor who cried, the fatherless and him who had none to help him. American Standard Version (1901) Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him. Common English Bible because I rescued the weak who cried out, the orphans who lacked help. Catholic Public Domain Version This was because I had freed the poor, who cried out, and the orphan, who had no helper. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Because I had delivered the poor man that cried out; and the fatherless, that had no helper. |
They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and take in pledge the infant of the poor.)
Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
(for from his youth I reared him as a father, and from his mother's womb I guided him);
if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw help in the gate;
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,
He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.
Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate.
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord.
He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
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.