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
And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed [at] the rock of his salvation.
Job 15:27
"Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon [his] loins,
Job 21:23
This [one] dies {in full prosperity}, {completely} at ease and secure.
Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.
Psalm 119:70
Their heart [is] insensitive like fat; As for me, I take delight in your law.
Amos 4:1
Hear this word, [you] cows of Bashan who [live] on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring [something] so that we may drink!"
James 5:4
Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.
Overpass
Jeremiah 2:33
How well you do [on] your way to seek love! {Therefore} even [to] the wicked [woman] you can teach your ways.
Ezekiel 5:6
But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her; for they rejected my regulations, and [as for] my statutes, they did not walk in them.
Ezekiel 16:47
And you have not [only] gone in their ways, but you [also] did according to their detestable things. {In such a short time} you behaved [more] corruptly than they in all of your ways.
1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.
Judge
Jeremiah 22:15
Do you reign as king because you [are] competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him?
Job 29:12
because I saved [the] needy who cried for help, and [I saved] [the] orphan for whom [there was] no helper.
Psalm 72:4
May he provide justice [for the] poor of [the] people, save [the] children of [the] needy, and crush [the] oppressor.
Psalm 82:2
"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}? Selah
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes [are] rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend [the] orphan and [the] legal dispute of [the] widow does not come before them.
Zechariah 7:10
You must not oppress [the] widow, [the] orphan, [the] foreigner, and [the] needy. You must not devise evil in your heart {against one another}.'
Yet
Jeremiah 12:1
You [will be] in the right, Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak [my] claims with you. Why does [the] way of [the] wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.
Job 12:6
[The] tents of [the] destroyers are at peace, and [there is] security for those who provoke God, [for those] whom God brings into his hand.
Psalm 73:12
See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
General references
Exodus 23:6
" 'You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute.
Proverbs 4:17
For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend [the] poor and needy.
Isaiah 59:14
And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter,