Job 6:27–28

³And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

²⁷Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

⁹Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

³And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

¹⁰Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹⁵He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

²²¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

²³If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

²⁴And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

⁷In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

²⁰Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

²²Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

¹²Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

²¹If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

⁵And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁰Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

⁶They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

³Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

⁴But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

³My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

³Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

⁴For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.