New Revised Standard Version
The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

Contemporary English Version
and looks after strangers. He defends the rights of orphans and widows, but destroys the wicked.

New American Bible
The LORD protects the resident alien, comes to the aid of the orphan and the widow, but thwarts the way of the wicked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

preserveth

Psalm 68:5 Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

Deuteronomy 10:18,19 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:11 And thou shalt feast before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, who abide with you: in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, that his name may dwell there:

Proverbs 15:25 The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: and will strengthen the borders of the widow.

Jeremiah 49:11 Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.

Hosea 14:3 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

James 1:27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

the way

Psalm 18:26 And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

Psalm 83:13-17 O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind. . . .

Psalm 145:20 The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 147:6 The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.

2 Samuel 15:31 And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech thee, the counsel of Achitophel.

2 Samuel 17:23 But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Esther 5:14 Then Zares his wife, and the rest of his friends answered him: Order a great beam to be prepared, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king, that Mardochai may be hanged upon it, and so thou shalt go full of joy with the king to the banquet. The counsel pleased him, and he commanded a high gibbet to be prepared.

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Esther 9:25 And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavors might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.

Proverbs 4:19 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Job 5:12-14 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: . . .

1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.