Job 22:7
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You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,
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if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—