Quotes about Compassion
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
— Job 24:3
They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
— Job 24:4
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
— Job 24:9
They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
— Job 24:21
“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
— Job 26:2
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
— Job 29:12
The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
— Job 29:13
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
— Job 29:15
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
— Job 29:16
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
— Job 30:25
If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
— Job 31:13
If I have denied the desires of the poor or allowed the widow’s eyes to fail,
— Job 31:16