Job 31:21

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

¹²because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

¹⁰Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless, ¹¹for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

²⁸They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

²⁷Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ²They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

³Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

⁷In 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.

⁹There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,