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 are grown fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Job 15:27
Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes heavy fat on his waist.
Job 21:23
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.
Psalm 119:70
Their heart is as gross as grease; but I delight in your law.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them who have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Overpass
Jeremiah 2:33
Why beautify your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.
Ezekiel 5:6
And she has changed my ordinances into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my ordinances and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel 16:47
Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
Judge
Jeremiah 22:15
Shall you reign, because you enclose yourself in cedar? did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness, and then it was well with him?
Job 29:12
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
Psalm 72:4
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Psalm 82:2
How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come before them.
Zechariah 7:10
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Yet
Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Psalm 73:12
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
General references
Exodus 23:6
You shall not pervert the justice of your poor in his dispute.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Isaiah 59:14
And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.