Cross references

Job 31:21

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless

because I saw that I had support in the gate,

Job 31:21 BSB

Job 31:21 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 22:9 (4 votes) and Job 29:12 (3 votes). 39 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Exodus 23 to James 2.

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Which verses does Job 31:21 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 22:94 votes

    You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

  2. Job 29:123 votes

    because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.

  3. Job 6:272 votes

    You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.

  4. Job 24:92 votes

    The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

  5. Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.

  6. They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.

  7. Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

  8. Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

  9. Micah 7:32 votes

    Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Which verses point to Job 31:21?

The 10 strongest of 39.