Esther 9:22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Job 5:5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring. (BBE)
Job 5:15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. (KJV BBE WBS NAS)
Job 5:16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Job 20:10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 20:19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 22:29 For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit. (BBE)
Job 24:4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 24:5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children. (See NIV)
Job 24:9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 24:10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves. (See NAS)
Job 24:14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had none to help him, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Job 29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. (KJV BBE WBS RSV)
Job 30:24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble? (BBE)
Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? (KJV WBS RSV NIV)
Job 31:16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; (KJV BBE WBS RSV)
Job 34:19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 34:28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Job 36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. (KJV JPS WBS YLT)
Job 36:15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. (KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 9:12 For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor. (ASV BBE)
Psalms 9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV)
Psalms 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. (KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 10:8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. (KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 10:9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. (KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. (KJV WBS)
Psalms 10:12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor. (ASV BBE)
Psalms 10:14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. (KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 10:17 Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing: (BBE)
Psalms 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. (KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 14:6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 18:27 For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall. (YLT)
Psalms 22:24 For He hath not despised nor abhorred the lowliness of the poor; neither hath He hid His face from him; but when he cried unto Him, He heard.' (JPS)
Psalms 22:26 The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever. (BBE NIV)
Psalms 25:9 He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them. (BBE)
Psalms 34:2 My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad. (BBE)
Psalms 34:6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 35:10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NIV)
Psalms 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 40:17 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 41:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 49:2 both low and high, rich and poor together. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 68:10 Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Psalms 69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. (KJV ASV BBE WBS)
Psalms 69:32 The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life. (BBE NIV)
Psalms 69:33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. (KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 70:5 But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 72:2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 72:4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 72:12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 72:13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Psalms 74:19 Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)
Psalms 74:21 Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 76:9 When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.) (BBE)
Psalms 82:3 "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NIV)
Psalms 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. (KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)
Psalms 86:1 A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 102:17 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side. (BBE)
Psalms 107:36 And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town; (BBE)
Psalms 107:41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. (KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 109:16 because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 109:22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Psalms 109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul. (KJV BBE WBS)
Psalms 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor. (WEB KJV BBE WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 113:7 He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS RSV NIV)
Psalms 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor. (KJV JPS BBE WBS NAS NIV)
Psalms 147:6 The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame. (BBE)
Psalms 149:4 For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation. (BBE)
Proverbs 10:4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Proverbs 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 11:12 He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet. (BBE)
Proverbs 13:7 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 13:23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 14:20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 14:21 He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor. (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS NAS RSV)
Proverbs 14:23 In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor. (BBE)
Proverbs 14:31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the poor are evil; but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. (JPS)
Proverbs 16:19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud. (WEB ASV BBE YLT RSV)
Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 18:23 The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:4 Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:7 All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 19:22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 20:13 Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough. (BBE YLT NAS NIV)
Proverbs 20:14 A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got. (BBE)
Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 21:17 He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 22:2 The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 22:9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 22:16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 22:22 Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Proverbs 23:21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags. (WEB BBE YLT NIV)