Job 6:27
6:27 Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless,
and auction off your friend.
Job 22:9
22:9 you sent widows away empty-handed,
and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
Job 24:3
24:3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey;
they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
Job 24:9
24:9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast,
the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
Job 31:21-23
31:21 if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan,
when I saw my support in the court,
31:22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder,
let my arm be broken off at the socket.
31:23 For the calamity from God was a terror to me,
and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.
Psalms 94:6
94:6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,
and they murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5
7:5 You must change
the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.
Jeremiah 22:3
22:3 The
Lord says, “Do what is just and right. Deliver those who have been robbed from those
who oppress them. Do not exploit or mistreat foreigners who live in your land, children who have no fathers, or widows.
Do not kill innocent people
in this land.
Zechariah 7:10
7:10 You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow human being.’
Malachi 3:5
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.
James 1:27
1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before
God the Father
is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.