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Job 22:9
You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of orphans has been crushed.
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Job 29:12
Because I saved the poor who cried for help, And the orphan who had no helper.
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Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who devise wrongdoing, Who practice evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, Because it is in the power of their hands.They covet fields, so they seize them; And houses, so they take them. They exploit a man and his house, A person and his inheritance.
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Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt among you. They have oppressed the stranger in your midst; they have oppressed the orphan and the widow among you.
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Proverbs 23:10-11
Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
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Jeremiah 5:28
They are fat, they are sleek, They also excel in deeds of wickedness; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, so that they may be successful; And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
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Micah 7:3
As for evil, both hands do it well. The leader asks for a bribe, also the judge, And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul; So they plot it together.
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Job 6:27
You would even cast lots for the orphans, And barter over your friend.
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Job 24:9
Others snatch an orphan from the breast, And they seize it as a pledge against the poor.
