22 “You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.(A)

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17 Do not deny justice to a resident alien or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.

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17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless(A) of justice,(B) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

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19 ‘The one who denies justice to a resident alien, a fatherless child, or a widow is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

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19 “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner,(A) the fatherless or the widow.”(B)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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27 No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child
and negotiate a price to sell your friend.(A)

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27 You would even cast lots(A) for the fatherless(B)
    and barter away your friend.

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21 if I ever cast my vote[a] against a fatherless child
when I saw that I had support in the city gate,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 31:21 Lit I raise my hand

21 if I have raised my hand against the fatherless,(A)
    knowing that I had influence in court,(B)

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14 But you yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into your hands.(A)
The helpless one entrusts himself to you;
you are a helper of the fatherless.(B)

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14 But you, God, see the trouble(A) of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;(B)
    you are the helper(C) of the fatherless.

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12 For he will rescue the poor who cry out
and the afflicted who have no helper.(A)

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12 For he will deliver the needy who cry out,
    the afflicted who have no one to help.

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13 The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor
will himself also call out and not be answered.(A)

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13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor
    will also cry out(A) and not be answered.(B)

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