Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
General references
Bible References
Waxen
Deuteronomy 32:15
Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; He gave up +God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Job 15:27
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his flanks.
Job 21:23
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
Psalm 119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink:
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Overpass
Jeremiah 2:33
How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
Ezekiel 5:6
And she hath rebelled against my judgments in wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for mine ordinances have they refused; and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel 16:47
And thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but as though that were a very little, thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.
Judge
Jeremiah 22:15
Shalt thou reign, because thou viest with the cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice? Then it was well with him.
Job 29:12
For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
Psalm 72:4
He will do justice to the afflicted of the people; he will save the children of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalm 82:2
How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the person of the wicked? Selah.
Isaiah 1:23
thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.
Zechariah 7:10
and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Yet
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous art thou, Jehovah, when I plead with thee; yet will I speak with thee of thy judgments. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?
Job 12:6
The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand +God bringeth.
Psalm 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
General references
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the afflicted and needy.
Isaiah 59:14
And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbleth in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.