Jer 5:28, 22:3, 16, Jam 1:27 | ESV | STEP | they have grown fat and sleek . They know no bounds in deeds of evil ; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless , to make it prosper , and they do not defend the rights of the needy .

i[See ver. 15 above]

Jeremiah 5:28

28 ^athey have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
^bthey judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

Jeremiah 22:3

3 Thus says the Lord: ^cDo justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And ^ddo no wrong or violence ^eto the resident alien, ^fthe fatherless, and the widow, nor ^gshed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:16

16 ^hHe judged the cause of the poor and needy;
ⁱthen it was well.
Is not this ^jto know me?
declares the Lord.

James 1:27

27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: ^kto visit ^lorphans and widows in their affliction, and ^mto keep oneself ⁿunstained from the world.