A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and clothing.

Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite that is within your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD your God has chosen to place his name there.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the boundary of the widow.

Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, you are our gods: for in you the fatherless finds mercy.

And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.

Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.

Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.

And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak you unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath abated.

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plot, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.