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Job 29:12

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

KJV

eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.

Vulgate

διέσωσα γὰρ πτωχὸν ἐκ χειρὸς δυνάστου, καὶ ὀρφανῷ ᾧ οὐκ ἦν βοηθὸς ἐβοήθησα·

LXX

Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.

ASV

כִּֽי אֲ֭מַלֵּט עָנִ֣י מְשַׁוֵּ֑עַ וְ֝/יָת֗וֹם וְֽ/לֹא עֹזֵ֥ר לֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה
h
verb · 95×
יָּת֥וֹם
ytvm
noun · 42×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×
עָנִ֣י
'ny
adjective · 77×
שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּי
shv'ty
verb · 21×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Amos 5:24 — But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
  • Deut 10:18 — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
  • Exod 22:22 — Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
  • Jas 1:27 — Pure 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.
  • Jas 1:27 — Pure 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.
  • Job 4:6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
  • Job 31:21 — If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
  • Job 34:28 — So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
  • Job 36:6 — He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
  • Prov 21:13 — Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
  • Prov 21:15 — It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 22:22 — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
  • Prov 24:11 — If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
  • Prov 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
  • Prov 31:9 — Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
  • Ps 41:1 — Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
  • Ps 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 68:5 — A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
  • Ps 72:12 — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
  • Ps 72:12 — For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
  • Ps 82:2 — How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
  • Ps 82:4 — Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
  • Ruth 2:20 — And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of ou