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
"But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Job 15:27
because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
Job 21:23
One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,
Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
Psalm 119:70
their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.
Amos 4:1
"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Overpass
Jeremiah 2:33
"How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
Ezekiel 5:6
And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
Ezekiel 16:47
Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.
Judge
Jeremiah 22:15
Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.
Psalm 72:4
May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
Psalm 82:2
"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
Zechariah 7:10
do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart."
Yet
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.
Psalm 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
General references
Exodus 23:6
"You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.