For I assisted the poor in their need and the orphans who required help.
Parallel translations
- WEB Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
- KJV Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
- BSB because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
- NKJV Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
- NASB Because I saved the poor who cried for help, And the orphan who had no helper.
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Quick answer
Job's honor rested on his rescue of the crying poor and the helpless fatherless.
Overview
Job begins listing the good deeds that earned him respect, foremost among them his care for the poor and orphan who had no helper. This reflects the heart of true religion, which God commends (James 1:27). Job's compassion mirrors the Lord, who defends the cause of the fatherless and the oppressed (Psalm 68:5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
- Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
- Exod 22:22–24“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
- Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
- Ps 82:2–4“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
- Prov 24:11–12Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
- Ps 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
- Deut 10:18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
- Jer 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Job 31:17or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it
- Neh 5:2–13For there were that said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
- Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
- Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,
- Job 22:5–9Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
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