Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Business life » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Better to be poor with righteousness than rich with injustice.
He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
I strike my fist at your dishonest gain and your acts of bloodshed.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.
Business life » Debts » Usury, forbidden
When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.
After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers. I organized a big meeting of protest.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives.
The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never fall or be upset.
If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,
Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.
After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers. I organized a big meeting of protest.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives.
The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never fall or be upset.
If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,
Injustice » Punishment of
You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
You impose unfair rent on the poor and defraud a tribute of grain from them. You haave built houses of hewn stone yet you will not live in them. You planted pleasant vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.
When a wicked man dies his expectation perishes, indeed the hope of unjust men perishes.
Will the land not tremble for this, and every one who dwells there mourn? I will rise up like the river. It will be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified.
Interest » loaning » Money
When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.
He lends money for interest and makes excessive profits. Will this person live? He will not live. He has done all these disgusting things. So he must die, and he will be responsible for his own death.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me. The Lord Jehovah has spoken.
The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never fall or be upset.
The people will be like the one officiating, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. Some said: We with our sons and our daughters are a great number. Let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs. There were some who said: We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt. Let us get grain because we are in need. read more.
Yet others said: We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children. Now we give our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants. Some of our daughters are servants even now. We have no power to stop this. For other men have our fields and our vine-gardens. On hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry. After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers. I organized a big meeting of protest. I said to them: We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free. They were servants and prisoners of the nations. Would you now give up your brothers for a price? Are they to become our property? They said nothing. They answered not a word! I said: What you are doing is not good. Is it not necessary for you to walk out of respect for our God, because of the shame the nations put on us? Even I and my servants have been collecting interest (Usury) for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give this up. Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil that you have taken from them. They said: We will give them back, and take nothing for them. We will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement. Shaking out the folds of my robe, I said: So, may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement. Even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. All the people said: Amen! They praised Jehovah. The people did as they said.
Yet others said: We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children. Now we give our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants. Some of our daughters are servants even now. We have no power to stop this. For other men have our fields and our vine-gardens. On hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry. After giving it much thought, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them: Everyone of you is collecting interest from his brothers. I organized a big meeting of protest. I said to them: We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free. They were servants and prisoners of the nations. Would you now give up your brothers for a price? Are they to become our property? They said nothing. They answered not a word! I said: What you are doing is not good. Is it not necessary for you to walk out of respect for our God, because of the shame the nations put on us? Even I and my servants have been collecting interest (Usury) for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give this up. Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil that you have taken from them. They said: We will give them back, and take nothing for them. We will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement. Shaking out the folds of my robe, I said: So, may God send out from his house and his work every man who does not keep this agreement. Even so let him be sent out and made as nothing. All the people said: Amen! They praised Jehovah. The people did as they said.
Do not charge interest to your brothers, interest on money, food, anything that may be loaned at interest. You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your brother (countrymen) you shall not charge interest. That way Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you undertake in the land you are about to possess.
Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives. Do not collect any interest on your money or on the food you give them.
If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man, if he lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully this person is righteous. He will certainly live,' declares the Lord Jehovah.
Usury » Forbidden
Sadness is mine! Why did my mother bring me into the world? I have to quarrel and argue with everyone in the whole earth. I have not lent any money or borrowed any; yet everyone curses me.
When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.
He lends money for interest and makes excessive profits. Will this person live? He will not live. He has done all these disgusting things. So he must die, and he will be responsible for his own death.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me. The Lord Jehovah has spoken.
The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never fall or be upset.
If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,
If an Israelite becomes poor and cannot support himself, you should help him. He must live with you as a stranger without a permanent home. Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives. Do not collect any interest on your money or on the food you give them.
He keeps his hand from the poor and does not take interest or increase, but executes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes. He will not die for his father's iniquity. He will surely live.
Do not charge interest to your brothers, interest on money, food, anything that may be loaned at interest.
Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Wealth acquired by lying is fleeting vapor and a deadly pursuit.
Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages.
Better to be poor with righteousness than rich with injustice.
He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
I strike my fist at your dishonest gain and your acts of bloodshed.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.
Wealth » Those that acquire riches unjustly
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
He who gets ahead by oppressing the poor and giving to the rich will certainly suffer loss.
He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.
Will they all taunt him by directing clever sayings and riddles at him? They will say: How horrible it will be for the one who makes himself rich with what is not his own (by extortion) and makes himself wealthy on loans. How long will this go on? Will your creditors and collection agents suddenly arise and make you tremble? Then you will become their prize. The people who remain will plunder you because you have plundered many nations. It is because of the blood you shed and the violence you brought on the land, the city and all who dwell there. read more.
He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil! You have purposed a shameful thing for your house. You have sinned against yourself by destroying many people. The stones will cry out from the wall. The beams out of the woodwork will answer it. Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed and establishes a city with iniquity! Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity? The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea. Woe to anyone who gives his neighbors drink and empties his bottle. He makes them drunk and then looks on their nakedness. You are filled with shame and not glory. You drink also as one who is uncircumcised. The cup of Jehovah's right (strong) hand will come around to you. Intense shame will tarnish your glory. The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you. The destruction of the animals and shedding of blood will frighten you. The violence done to the inhabitants of the land and the city will terrify you.
He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil! You have purposed a shameful thing for your house. You have sinned against yourself by destroying many people. The stones will cry out from the wall. The beams out of the woodwork will answer it. Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed and establishes a city with iniquity! Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity? The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea. Woe to anyone who gives his neighbors drink and empties his bottle. He makes them drunk and then looks on their nakedness. You are filled with shame and not glory. You drink also as one who is uncircumcised. The cup of Jehovah's right (strong) hand will come around to you. Intense shame will tarnish your glory. The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you. The destruction of the animals and shedding of blood will frighten you. The violence done to the inhabitants of the land and the city will terrify you.