Job 24:9

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Come, and let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites, and not let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh.” His brothers listened to him.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’

But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

Pure 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.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he will surely live. He will not die.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.