Jeremiah 5:28
They grow big and fat. Their evil deeds have no limits. They have no respect for the rights of others. They have no respect for the rights of orphans. But they still prosper. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
Deuteronomy 32:15
Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation.
Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They do not listen to the widows' pleas.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow. Do not oppress the fatherless. Do not oppress the stranger and do not oppress the poor. And you should not devise evil in your heart against your brother.
Psalm 73:12
Behold, these are the ungodly. They prosper in the world; they increase in wealth.
Jeremiah 7:6
if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin,
Job 12:6
The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God's hand brings them.
Job 15:27-28
His face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh.
Job 21:23-24
One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure.
Job 29:12-14
This is because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper.
Psalm 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.
Psalm 73:6-7
That is why arrogance is their necklace and violence covers them like clothing.
Psalm 82:2-4
How long are you going to judge unjustly? How long are you going to show partiality to the wicked?
Psalm 119:70
Their heart is like fat (callous and without feeling), But I delight in your law.
Jeremiah 2:33
You carefully planned ways to look for love. You taught your ways to wicked women.
Jeremiah 12:1
Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?
Jeremiah 22:15-19
Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Ezekiel 5:6-7
She has rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against my statutes more than the lands that surround her. My people have rejected my ordinances and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezekiel 16:47-52
Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters (husbands) (lords), Bring us drink.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father's wife.
James 5:4-5
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.