²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

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

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.

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

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

¹⁰ Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹ For their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

²⁸ They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.

⁷ In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

¹ Woe 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.

² They covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.

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